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While in a restaurant, she revealed to me her affections and stated "Now, it's time for you to talk to the other man in my .life." She escorted me to a pay phone and called her father. During our first conversation he said, "[Kay] tells me you have some military experience. When we physically meet, let's compare notes."
The Tuskegee Airmen were wellmotivated and anxious to get into the fighting. They had a little activity in Northern Africa, but the real test came in Italy. When General Patton led our troops onto Sicily, they encountered a major challenge. The Nazis assembled a formidable counterattack with fierce artillery bombardment. We couldn't move another inch. As documented on the War Channel and Fox News War Stories, it was the Tuskegee Airmen who wiped out the German artillery units and freed our troops from harm's way.After the war, the insults from a mentally defective nation continued. [Charles Henry DeBow Jr.] returned to Indianapolis and was forced to stand in the rain while in uniform at the train station as "No Negroes Allowed in the Waiting Lounge." He was denied rooms at prominent Detroit hotels despite wearing a uniform with captain bars and aviation wings. He forced his way into the Indiana University via the GI Bill of Rights, but had to stay in a trailer off<ampus with all the other Black GIs because the dorms were for whites only.See the full content of this document
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Thinking About My Tuskegee Airman
We have just completed another Black History Month and the talk and remembrance of the Tuskegee Airman revved up to great heights once again. This year at the end of March, the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II will receive t...
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