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2 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Willie Rogers, supposedly the oldest member of the Tuskegee Airmen, dead at 101.

Received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2007.

 

Died 5 years ago actually.

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18 minutes ago, Death Impends said:

 

Died 5 years ago actually.


God damnit, you’re right. 
 

I set my Google search to “past month” too. This is not the first time regurgitated articles have come up when I do that. Clearly their algorithms can’t detect when a news site has recently updated or moved an old article.

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26 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


God damnit, you’re right. 
 

I set my Google search to “past month” too. This is not the first time regurgitated articles have come up when I do that. Clearly their algorithms can’t detect when a news site has recently updated or moved an old article.

Google limited to the last month news recently tried to give me the hot tip that Etta James was no well. You heard it here first!

 

This happens a lot with Google.

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I'm sure Google used to be better, especially Google Images, which returns images that appear to have little or no connection with the search terms.  Never used to be like that.

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On 03/09/2018 at 18:45, drol said:

*Alexander Jefferson (1921)

https://detroitmi.gov/news/city-rededicate-field-honor-lt-col-alexander-jefferson-decorated-member-tuskegee-airmen-his-100th

Alexander Jefferson is now a centenarian.

 

What's interesting about him is that he was a POW. While attacking a radar installation in August 1944 he was shot down and parachuted to safety but was captured by Nazi ground troops.

He was sent to POW camp Stalag Luft III and later to Stalag VII-A, freed by Patton's army.

He was one of the 32 Tuskegee Airmen captured during the war, Harold Brown is another out of the 32 still alive and currently 97. 

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https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Tuskegee-airman-San-Antonio-16679797.php

Brigadier General (Colonel before 2020) Charles McGee, WWII, Korea and Vietnam veteran and probably the most known Tuskegee Airman living has turned 102. Doesn't seem to have declined much during the last years but he's in a wheelchair. This article also mentions something about the amount of living Tuskegee airmen:

"Sinkfield said that nationally, only eight pilots and around 1,000 other airmen from the 332nd Fighter Group survive"

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On 16/11/2021 at 04:45, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:

Is a Tuskegee Airman anything like a Wichita Lineman, or an Okie from Muskogee?

Yes, it’s exactly like those. :facepalm:

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Clifton Brooks Sr., the last surviving Tuskegee Airman from West Virginia, has died. He was 99. Brooks served in the U.S. Air Force as a cryptologist during World War II.

 

https://www.times-news.com/news/local_news/clifton-brooks-sr-west-virginias-last-tuskegee-airmen-dies-at-99/article_78f8b59e-6730-11ec-8789-77cba145c43a.html

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58 minutes ago, CastAway said:

How many left now?


Too many. Ask again in another 2 years.

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Asa D. Herring, an original member of the Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was 95. Herring was born in North Carolina in 1926, becoming a member of the famed squad in 1944, serving at the tail end of World War II. Herring was living in Arizona at the time of his death.

 

https://www.azfamily.com/2022/05/28/one-original-tuskegee-airmen-arizona-dies/

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Death notice for Maceo Martin Jr., aged 98, a flight officer with the Tuskegee Airmen during WWII.

Mention of him here on his father's Wiki (his father was a famous banker/civil rights activist).

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Frequently mentioned in this thread and elsewhere... Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson (wiki), dead at 100 according to various pages on Facebook, e.g. herehere and here.

A pick in the centenarians deadpool...

Tuskegee-Airman-Alexander-Jefferson.jpg.942510056ba904c0c31f1edab674ad84.jpg

There are now 10 Tuskegee Airmen survivors from WWII with Wiki pages:
James Clayton Flowers (b. 1915, wiki)
Raymond Cassagnol (b. 1920, wiki)
Thomas Franklin Vaughns (b. 1920, wiki)
James H. Harvey (b. 1923, wiki)
Harold Brown (b. 1924, wiki)
Harry Stewart Jr. (b. 1924, wiki)
George Hardy (b. 1925, wiki)
Carl C. Johnson (b. 1926, wiki)
Gene Derricotte (b. 1926, wiki)
Oscar Lawton Wilkerson (b. 1926, wiki)

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William Rice, a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal for his service with the Tuskegee Airmen, flying in a P-51 Mustang as a Red Tail Fighter with the 332nd Fighter Group in Europe during World War II, has died days before his 99th birthday.

 

https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/mc-nws-pa-tuskegee-airman-dies-carey-20221201-tvypm6mlsfaavku5zvtm3njzuq-story.html

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Christopher W. Newman, a pilot graduate of the Tuskegee Flight School who survived two crashes and flew 84 missions as a fighter pilot in World War II with the Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was 100. Newman passed on October 21st. His death was reported on December 8th.

 

https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/christopher-w-newman-heroic-tuskegee-airman-passes-at-100/article_3f1916ae-7678-11ed-b3bf-435eea4c8994.html

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On 16/11/2021 at 09:38, arghton said:

https://detroitmi.gov/news/city-rededicate-field-honor-lt-col-alexander-jefferson-decorated-member-tuskegee-airmen-his-100th

Alexander Jefferson is now a centenarian.

 

What's interesting about him is that he was a POW. While attacking a radar installation in August 1944 he was shot down and parachuted to safety but was captured by Nazi ground troops.

He was sent to POW camp Stalag Luft III and later to Stalag VII-A, freed by Patton's army.

He was one of the 32 Tuskegee Airmen captured during the war, Harold Brown is another out of the 32 still alive and currently 97. 


Harold Brown (wiki) dead at 98.

Facebook tribute here from his wife.

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