With the members of the trail Black Aircraft unit that passes to advanced life expectancy, efforts to remain truly their memory worn despite sometimes confusing orders of the President Donald Trump While federal diversity, capital and inclusion is pierced.
Colonel James H. Harvey III, 101, is among the last few aircraft and support crews that has proven that the Black Unit is 332. Tuskegee Fighting Group – could fight as any other world war and for years after that.
He continued to become the first pilot in the form of a black jet Korean Airspace during the Korean War, and is decorated after 126 missions. He was one of the four tuxed airplanes that won the first American aviation passenger in 1949. year, the forerunner of today’s American sailor’s “Top Gun” school.
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Shortly after the Trump January inauguration, the aviation has removed new recruitment courses that included videos from tuxed aircraft.
Removal has pulled out a biparted rage and a white house of IRE over the Kaže Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsethth described as “malicious implementation” of the Trump’s Executive Order.
Air Form quickly reversed the course.
The announcement of the mayor, the Chief of Headquarters General Allvin said that the initial removal was because the service was, as well as other agencies, to match the Trump’s executable account, without pulling out, without pulling. “
The video showed troops as part of the course dei recorded during the basic military training. Some photos of Tuskigee Airmen were also among tens of thousands of images of UA Pentagon Database marked for removal.
“I thought there was progress in the area, but obviously doesn’t exist,” said Harvey, who blamed Trump for contribution to what he sees as a worsening prejudice in the USA
“I’ll tell him his face. No problem,” he said. “I’ll tell him,” You’re a racist, “and see what he has to say about it. What can I do? Just kill me, that’s all.”
Tuskegee Airmen Unit was founded in 1941. as 99. Squadron at a heavy alabama in Alabama Institute. 99. It became 332. A richer group, which at the end of the war destroyed or damaged more than 400 enemy aircraft in North Africa and Europe during the war and sunk German destruction in action.
From 992 Tuskiegee Airmen dressed as pilots that began in 1942. years, 335, 66 were killed in action and 32 that the shooters became prisoners of war.
In 1949, two months after the airborne guzens encountered the victory in the grade exacerbated by propeller, the American aviation forces integrated black and white troops, and Tuskegee Airmen were absorbed into other units.
They took air forces nearly half a century to recognize the last achievement in 332.2.
For decades, the winners are listed as “unknown”, and their trophy was missing.
“We conquered them all,” Harvey said. “We shouldn’t have beat anything about the color of our skin.”
Harvey trained during World War II, but not arranged for the fight before the war ended. In Korea, the F-80 Star Star Start Fighter was flying and earned medals, including a reputable flying cross.
He reconciled as a lieutenant colonel in 1965. and received the honorary promotion of Colonel 2023. years.
Trump in 2020. He promoted another one of the last survivor of tuxed planes, Charles McGee, on Brigadier General. McGee died in 2022. in 102 years.
Harvey still welcomes the aviation coughing to meet as his greatest achievement, one air force finally recognized 1993. years.
Their missing trophy was found in museum storage not long after that.
“We were good and they couldn’t take away from us,” Harvey said. “We were good. And I’ll repeat it until I die.”