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Colorado Springs WWII Aviation Museum featured on History Channel documentary Wednesday COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) A documentary on the historic Tuskegee Airmen, airing at 6 p.m. Wednesday on History (the cable network also known as the History Channel), will have a strong emphasis on Colorado Springs. The hourlong documentary, titled Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage, will include a visit to the city s National Museum of World War II Aviation and its Tuskegee Airmen exhibit honoring the first group of Black pilots to train and serve in the military. Gene Pfeffer, the museum s curator and historian, explained how the History crew s visit went. ....
Gene Pfeffer, historian and curator at the National Museum of World War II Aviation, shows one of the Tuskegee Airmen displays at the Colorado Springs museum Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, while giving a tour of the 21-acre site at the Colorado Springs Airport. Pfeffer and the late Frank J. Macon, Tuskegee Airman and local resident, will be featured in the History Channel’s “Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage” airing Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 6 p.m. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock) Christian Murdock/The Gazette ....
VAntage Point AARP celebrates Black Veterans who served Hilda Griggs: Unsung hero of World War II This year marks 76 years since the first and only all-African American Women’s Army Corps (WAC) unit that deployed to Europe during World War II. Hilda Griggs, now 97, was one of the 855 members of that unit, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, which was tasked with sorting through the two-year backlog of mail intended for service members and other personnel serving in the European theater. The motto of the 6888th wasn’t ambiguous: “No mail, low morale.” “My mother didn’t want me to leave, but I came to Philadelphia and joined,” Griggs told AARP, adding that she was inspired to enlist because she had five brothers in the service and was lonely at home. ....
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Pioneers Museum opening new exhibit celebrating Colorado Springs’ sesquicentennial COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) The Pioneer Museum has a unique exhibit opening this weekend, celebrating the 150th birthday of Colorado Springs along with part of KRDO s past. “There are artifacts of all different sizes from all different eras, said Leah Davis Witherow, curator at the Pioneers Museum. “The selection process was very difficult, she told KRDO. The exhibit, which opens Saturday at 10 a.m., displays 150 objects stories, really celebrating 150 years of Colorado Springs. Among the pieces of Colorado Springs history on display, you can also see the early beginnings of KRDO. ....