New Squadron Leader! Exciting essay competition for Black History Month! And much more!
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Herbert Hosea Heywood November 10, 1923 – May 8, 1982 Class: 44-C-SE Graduation date: 3/12/1944 Rank at time of graduation: 2nd Lt. Service # 0824833 From: St. Croix VI Herbert Hosea Heywood was born in
Eugene “Gene” Derricotte June 14, 1926 – March 31, 2023 Class: 46-B-TE Graduation date: 5/14/1946 From: Detroit MI Dr. Derricotte was born June 14, 1926 in Fostoria, Ohio, to Clarence C. Derricotte and Bessie M.
Elbert T. Hudson November 16, 1920 – August 8, 2017 Class: 44-C-SE Graduation Date: 3/12/1944 Graduation Rank: 2nd Lt. Service #0824834 From: Los Angeles CA Civic leader, Tuskegee airman and L.A. Police Commission’s first black
Charles Roach Class: 45-F-TE Graduation Date: 9/8/1945 Unit: 477th Bombardment Group, Service # T70431 “You can’t fight your way up to the top with your fists. You can with your character.” At the beginning of