Category: Profiles of Tuskegee Airmen

Henry Pollard, Jr.

2d Lt Henry Pollard, Jr. 1919 – May 22, 1944 Class: 43-K-SE Graduation Date: December 5, 1944 Graduation Rank: 2d Lt Unit: 302nd Fighter Squadron,

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William S. Powell, Jr.

William S. Powell, Jr. June 23, 1925 – April 15, 1996 Class 45-B-SE 4/15/1945 Flt. Officer T69747 Eggertsville, NY Unit: 99th Pursuit Squadron, 477th Composite Wing William

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Rudolf Silas

July 11, 1946 – March 2021 Rudolf Silas was born in Lehigh, Oklahoma and joined the Army Air Corps on July 11, 1946. After basic

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Lucius Theus

MG Lucius Theus October 11, 1922 – October 15, 2007 Major General Lucius Theus was the first African-American combat support officer to be promoted General

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Percy Ellis Sutton

Percy Ellis Sutton November 24, 1920 – December 26, 2009 Percy Sutton became one of America’s best-known lawyers in the 1950s and ’60s, representing controversial

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Wilmeth Sidat-Singh

Lt. Wilmeth Sidat-Singh March 13, 1918 – May 10, 1943 Class 42-C-SE Graduation Date: March 25, 1943 Unit: 332nd Fighter Group, 100th Fighter Squadron Service

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