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Mr. Farrar Photo from Associated Press
LYNCHBURG - Tuskegee Airman Alfred Thomas Farrar died on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, in Lynchburg only days before a ceremony planned to honor his service in the program that famously trained Black military pilots during World War II. He was 99.
Mr. Farrar would have turned 100 on Dec. 26. Mr. Farrar left his Lynchburg hometown for Tuskegee, Ala., after graduating from high school, to begin his aviation training in 1941. âIt was the next best thing to do,â Mr. Farrar told The News & Advance in an article that ran last week.
Mr. Farrar learned to be a pilot during his time in the U.S. Army Air Corps program but didnât fly any combat missions overseas, according to his son, Roy Farrar.
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WFSU’s Mike Plummer shows us the fateful story of a World War II era B-17 bomber that crashed at Saint Marks on a summer day in 1944. The plane went down carrying a crew of ten men…only one airman survived. Long forgotten, the wreckage was rediscovered in 2011. A historic marker is now in place so the story of these men won’t be forgotten again.
Transcript:
Reporter Mike Plummer: When I think of the St. Marks National
Wildlife Refuge, I usually think of unspoiled nature and its signature
lighthouse. But in 2011, a crew from the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found something else on the refuge that had