42-F-SE 7/3/1942 2nd Lt. 0790460 Cleveland OH, Lawrence, Robert W. 44-F-SE 6/27/1944 2nd Lt. 01640660 Bloomfield NJ, Lawson, Herman A. Percy, William A. Officer T64640 New York NY, Reynolds, Clarence E.,Jr. Keith, Laurel E. 44-F-TE 6/27/1944 2nd Lt. 0835319 Cassopolis MI . Up high enough and you were in heaven, utopia, the Elysium. The Tuskegee Airmen plane had an innovative layout, with the engine installed in the center fuselage, behind the pilot, and driving a tractor propeller via a long shaft. Officer T66139 Providence RI, Ashby, Robert 45-H-TE 11/20/1945 2nd Lt. 0843351 Jersey City NJ, Ashley, Willie 42-F-SE 7/3/1942 2nd Lt. 0789641 Sumter SC, Askins, Montro 44-K-SE 2/1/1945 2nd Lt. 0841156 Baltimore MD, Audant, Ludovic F. 44-B-SE 2/8/1944 Port au Prince Haiti, Bailey, Charles P. 43-D-SE 4/29/1943 2nd Lt. 0801161 Punta Corda FL, Bailey, Harry L. 43-G-SE 7/28/1943 2nd Lt. 0809237 Chicago IL, Bailey, Terry C. 45-C-SE 5/23/1945 Flt. Ellis, Everett M. 45-I-TE 1/29/1946 2nd Lt. 0210201 Baltimore MD, Ellis, William B. List of Tuskegee Airmen The Airmen were a group of primarily African-American military pilots (fighter and bomber) and airmen who fought in World War II. Officer T69975 Hyattsville MD, Jones, Hubert L. 43-H-SE 8/30/1943 2nd Lt. 0811284 Institute WV, Jones, Major E. 44-D-SE 4/15/1944 2nd Lt. 0828051 Cleveland OH, Jones, Robert, Jr. 45-A-SE 3/11/1945 Flt. Officer T68761 Nashville TN, Fletcher, Henry F. 43:J-SE 11/3/1943 2nd Lt. 0814140 San Antonio TX, Ford, Harry E., Jr. 45-E-TE 8/4/1945 Flt. He asserted that the 99th’s pilots lacked the stamina and lasting qualities of white pilots, concluding that the black airmen had “no outstanding characteristics” when operating in wartime conditions and when compared with their white counterparts. [49][50][51] At the time, the usual training cycle for a bombardment group took three to four months. For the mission, the 332nd Fighter Group earned a Distinguished Unit Citation. Woodrow W. Crockett (1918–2012) was born in Homan (Miller County) and lived in Little Rock (Pulaski County), where he attended Dunbar High School and Junior College before leaving to join the army in August 1940. In 1942, Crockett transferred to the Tuskegee Institute and became an aviation cadet. By default, Benjamin Davis, Jr. would shoulder the heavy burden of defending the 99th Fighter Squadron. The Spencer-White flight, formally known as the Goodwill Flight, set out to demonstrate that blacks could fly as well as their white counterparts, if given a chance. They segregated base facilities so thoroughly that they even drew a line in the base theater and ordered separate seating by races. Officer T70485 Springfield, Ill. Hudson, Elbert 44-C-SE 3/12/1944 2nd Lt. 0824834 Los Angeles CA, Hudson, Lincoln T. 44-F-SE 6/27/1944 2nd Lt. 0835326 Chicago IL, Hudson, Perry E., Jr. 43:}-SE 11/3/1943 2nd Lt. 0814818 Atlanta GA, Hughes, Andrew James 46-B-TE 5/14/1946 Unknown Unknown Unknown, Hughes, Samuel R., Jr. 45-B-SE 4/15/1945 Flt. With Machiavellian cunning, McCloy quietly released the report that he had previously withheld, thinking now that the report’s scurrilous charges against Japanese Americans would alarm the Justices sufficiently to win them over.