The Tuskegee Airmen / ta002_2

Photographer: Brenda J. Turner
02/19/2001
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Val Archer
100th Fighter Squad

For every Black pilot there were ten other civilian or military Black men and women on ground support duty.  The saga of the Tuskegee Airmen had a cast of  thousands, literally.  There were heroes: the men who flew aloft and the men on the ground who kept them flying.

Charles W. "Chuck" Dryden
Atlanta, Georgia