Tuskegee Airmen

The Tuskegee Airmen were the cream of the crop
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    (from The Horrors of War)
  • Of 2,053 cadets admitted to the flight program from colleges
    (and later from high schools) around the country, 
    992 graduated, and only 355 flew missions.
    • 1578 combat missions
      179 bomber escort missions
    • 262 enemy aircraft destroyed (a further 148 damaged)
      950 vehicles destroyed (including 600 rail cars)
  • 40 boats and barges destroyed and one torpedo destroyer put out of action
  • 81 were killed
    31 became prisoners of war
  • 744 Air Medals
    Three Distinguished Unit Citations
    96 Distinguished Flying Crosses
    14 Bronze Stars
    8 Purple Hearts
    1 Silver Star
    • Roscoe C. Brown - Tuskegee Airmen                     Roscoe C. Brown Jr.               March 9, 1922 – July 2, 2016 (Age 94)
    • Herbert E. Carter - Tuskegee Airmen
                          Herbert Eugene Carter                       Sept. 27, 1919 – Nov. 8, 2012 (Age 93)
    • Mal Whitfield - Tuskegee Airmen
                      Mal Greston Whitfield                  Oct. 11, 1924 – Nov. 19, 2015 (Age 91)
    • Theobald G. Wilson - Tuskegee Airmen
      1923 - Dec. 8, 2012 (Age 89)

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