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Local Tuskegee Airmen to Receive Gold Medals
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| Title | Local Tuskegee Airmen to Receive Gold Medals |
| Abstract | Thirty former Tuskegee Airmen from Missouri and Kansas will be honored on September 8, 2007, in a ceremony held at the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Mo. Each member will receive a replica of the Congressional Gold Medal presented to the unit by President George W. Bush in March 2007. The keynote speaker will be Colonel Charles E. McGee, former Base Commander at Richards-Gebaur Air Force base. b b The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of African American fighter pilots who were trained near the small town of Tuskegee, Alabama, during World War II. A reported 450 black airmen fought in aerial battles over North Africa, Sicily, and Europe. |
| Author | George J. Dunmore
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| Date | September 7-13, 2007 |
| Source | Kansas City Call |
| Location | Microfilm |
| Volume | 88 |
| Number | 6 |
| Page | 1, 4 |
| See Also | Same issue: KCK News, p. 15, "Kansas Tuskegee Airmen to Receive Gold Medal at Truman Library" by Tracy Allen. |
| Subject | Military air pilots
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| Local Subject | Tuskegee Airmen
African Americans
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| Illustrations | Yes |
| Item Type | Newspaper Article
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| Access This Item | This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests |
| Item ID | 217539 |
| CONTENTdm number | 37194 |
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