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Showing posts with label EARLIEST AFRICAN-AMERICAN PILOT IN AIR FORCE NATIONAL GUARD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EARLIEST AFRICAN-AMERICAN PILOT IN AIR FORCE NATIONAL GUARD. Show all posts
Monday, August 20, 2012
U.S. AIR FORCE HISTORICAL AIR NATIONAL GUARD PHOTOS
FROM: U.S. AIR FORCE
1st Lt Thomas E. Williams was the earliest known African-American Pilot in the ANG. He joined in NJ on 7 May 1954 and was killed during a routine training mission on 15 January 1955 when his F-86A went into an unrecoverable spin
While escorting B-29s near "MiG Alley" over North Korea on 26 June 1951, 1st Lt. Arthur E. Olinger and Capt. Harry Underwood of the 182nd FBS, Texas, shared credit for the Air Guard’s first jet kill, a MiG-15.
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