US Mint to honor Tuskegee Airmen with special quarter
US Mint to honor Tuskegee Airmen with special quarter Updated Jan 02, 2021; Facebook Share The Tuskegee Airmen are being honored by the U.S. Mint with a quarter dedicated to the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site. The coin, which will be the final installment in the mint’s popular America the Beautiful Quarters Program, is slated to be officially released Monday. All of the nearly 1,000 Black military pilots who trained in the U.S. during World War II did so in Tuskegee. Of those, 450 were deployed overseas and 150 died, including 66 who were killed in action. There were also more than...
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