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BY D’ARCY PATRICK EGAN

SPRINGFIELD - The Purple Heart awarded to Army Specialist Kenneth R. Wiest was returned to his family as part of Operation Purple Heart, an unprecedented

RI WWII veteran celebrates 100th birthday recalling his time on Iwo Jima in 1945

A stretch of highway in Moniteau County may soon be named after Missouris last Tuskegee Airman, who died last year.

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In 1941, a new air base at Tuskegee, Alabama, became the center for the training program of Black air personnel. First with the 99th Fighter Squadron and later with the 332nd Fighter Group, African Americans contributed to the war effort, serving in the Mediterranean combat theater, flying from bases in North Africa and Italy while supporting operations against German forces. Later, the USAAF created the 477th Bombardment Group of African American B-25 Mitchell crews, which did not see combat. T...

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., in full Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr., (born December 18, 1912, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died July 4, 2002, Washington, D.C.), pilot, officer, and administrator who became the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force. His father, Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., was the first African American to become a general in any branch of the U.S. military. Davis studied at the University of Chicago before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 193...

Believe as you know from facing endemic faith is the mountains and that the good lord gives usn assignment and we have to look for the signs. do you know that lieutenant colonel harry t stewart was born on the fourth of july? my dad was born on flag day. the 14th. i have always looked for those signs. i want to share one thing and i want to read this because i want to get it right. lieutenant colonel stuart flew with 332 fighter group. and i mentioned the red tails, the b51 mustangs. tonight you...

Meet Charles A. "Chief" Anderson, the lead instructor at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in World War II. This American gave the famous Tuskegee Airmen their first taste of flight.

As regular readers will remember, at time of writing, AirCorps Aviation was in the final stages of completing the magnificent restoration of a rare, razorback Republic P-47D Thunderbolt for the Dakota Territory Air Museum. The fighter is one of several, world-class efforts which the now-famed restoration shop in Bemidji, Minnesota has rolled out of its doors over the past decade or so. Not an organization to rest on its laurels, AirCorps is already working hard on a number of other projects, one...