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    Tuskegee airman, WWII hero from N.J., dies at 90,

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    Calvin Spann, a New Jersey native who flew 26 missions over Nazi Germany as one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, died at his home in Texas Sunday, according to NBC New York. He was 90.
    Spann, who was raised in Rutherford, was a pioneering black World War II combat pilot recognized for his bravery escorting bombers over enemy territory in Europe in the 1940s.
    He once said watching the planes take off from Teterboro Airport inspired him to become a pilot. He volunteered for the Army Air Corps and was sent to Tuskegee, Alabama to join the first group of African-American military aviators in the history of the U.S. Armed Forces, credited with breaking down racial barriers with their valor and skill.


    http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/201...st_shared-news
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    Sure Peter and thanks, my mistake
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    Sure Peter and thanks, my mistake
    No problem. It fits in either place, I just like the Vet's forum to honor vets.
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    RIP to an American hero.
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    Damn shame this thread didnt get more responses.
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    Rest in peace!
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    Original Tuskegee Airman passes on to the wild blue yonder...

    Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr., an original Tuskegee Airman, dies at 94
    3 July,`16 - Another original member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen has died, according to a short statement released by his family Monday.
    Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr., a Washington, D.C. native, died on Saturday at age 94. The notice shared on his Public Figure Facebook page reads: "Our beloved father, grandfather and great grandfather passed away on July 2, 2016. We thank you all for your love and support during this time."

    The NBC affiliate in New York City wrote Monday that Brown had fallen critically ill over the winter and had a pacemaker installed. He was trying to get back into exercising when he was interviewed in May. Not one for idleness, Brown completed the NYC Marathon nine times! Capt. Brown commanded the 100th Fighter Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, during World War II. He flew 68 long-range missions from August of 1944 to March of 1945. He's credited with being the first 15th Air Force pilot to shoot down a German jet fighter, a feat that happened on March 24, 1945 while escorting bombers near Berlin. It was the longest escort mission to take place in the war.

    Brown's airplane, a P-51 Mustang named "Bunnie" was named for his eldest daughter, Doris, born while he was fighting overseas. The Airman earned multiple awards for his actions in WWII including: The Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with eight Oak Leaf Clusters. In 2000 he was among those in attendance when President George W. Bush presented the Airmen the Congressional Gold Medal. And in 2006 he, and the Airmen, were presented the Congressional Medal of Honor by unanimous vote of Congress.

    Brown served as a Production Advisor in 2012 for the production of the stage play "Fly" and sat down for an interview with Ford's Theatre. "The reason the Tuskegee Airmen are really being recognized now is that we challenged the stereotype," Brown said during the interview. "We defeated a stereotype that African-Americans didn't have the intelligence, the ability to do this. And we did it, we did it as well, may times better than other folks..." After leaving the Air Force, Dr. Brown went on to a long career in education. He was the Director of the Center for Urban Education Policy and University Professor at the Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York (CUNY). He was also the past President of Bronx Community College of CUNY, and was formerly Director of the Institute of Afro-American Affairs at New York University.

    Brown also sat on numerous boards, among them national boards of Boys and Girls Clubs of America and the American Council on Education, the New York Botanical Garden, the Museum of the City of New York, the Phipps Community Development Corporation, the City Parks Foundation, Libraries for the Future, and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. He was also Vice Chairman of the Arthur Ashe Athletic Association and of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, and chaired the National Scholarship Selection Committee of the Jackie Robinson Foundation. Brown is survived by four children, as well as multiple grandchildren and great grandchildren.

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    Another Tuskegee Airman flies to the Great Beyond...

    Dabney Montgomery, Tuskegee Airman who safeguarded Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 93
    September 4,`16 - For Dabney Montgomery, the indignities at home stung more because of the noble tasks he performed for his country abroad — serving with the Tuskegee Airmen to help win World War II in a role that would eventually earn him a Congressional Gold Medal.
    But at a train station in Atlanta in 1945, carrying an Army duffel bag over his shoulder after receiving his honorable-discharge papers, he was abruptly confronted with Jim Crow America. “Before I could get in, a white officer threw up his hands [and said]: ‘You can’t come in this door, boy. You got to go around the back,'” Montgomery told Alice Bernstein in a video interview. “‘You can’t come in here; you’re black. You got to go around the corner.'” Montgomery, who served as a member of the all-black fighter group and, decades later, as a bodyguard to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. died at age 93 of natural causes Sept. 3, his wife, Amelia Montgomery, told the Associated Press.

    Montgomery protected King during the famous 1965 march to Montgomery from Selma, Ala. — Montgomery’s home town. Heels from the shoes Montgomery wore in that march will hang in the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, which opens Sept. 24, according to Smithsonian magazine. Montgomery was born in 1923 and inducted into the armed forces in 1943, serving in what was then the Army Air Corps as one of the Tuskegee Airmen. They got their name because they trained at Alabama’s historically black Tuskegee University, which had a civilian pilot-training program, according to the university’s historical page about the airmen.


    Tuskegee Airman Dabney Montgomery waves to the crowd as he is introduced before the start of a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles in June 5, 2013.

    Black servicemen who trained at Tuskegee faced discrimination in the armed services and at home, but the “Red Tails,” as they were known, distinguished themselves in a March 1945 bombing run to Berlin and by discovering a German destroyer in the harbor of Trieste, Italy, according to the university. “The tenacious bomber escort cover provided by the 332nd ‘Red Tail’ fighters often discouraged enemy fighter pilots from attacking bombers escorted by the 332nd Fighter Group,” the university said. Despite the exploits of the airmen, Montgomery said he was often smacked with discrimination at home.

    In Selma, fresh out of the army, he tried to register to vote, according to the Bernstein interview. A woman there, he said, told him that he had to find “three white men that would endorse me as a good $#@! that would not cause any trouble in Selma, Alabama, if I voted.” When he returned with the endorsements, he said, he was denied again. This time, the woman said, it was because he did not own land in Alabama.

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    RIP Dabney.
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