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Honoring Selfridge's Tuskegee Airmen

First class of Negro pilots in the history of
the US Army Air Corps (LC-USZ62-107498)

The Detroit News reports on a ceremony held at Selfridge Air Base to honor "Tuskegee Airmen" who trained at Selfridge. From 1942 to 1944, an estimated 330 African-American pilots received advanced gunnery training at Selfridge after receiving their wings at Tuskegee Army Airfield.

Read Selfridge honors WWII airmen in the Detroit News (also has audio which is hard to hear, but worth a listen)

Posted/updated Jul 19, 2006
by Andrew McFarlane (Absolute Michigan)

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