Category: Profiles of Tuskegee Airmen

James Randall

James E.P. Randall 1920 – December 9, 2019 The son of a librarian and a railroad worker, Randall grew up during the Great Depression in

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Everett Richardson

Lt. Everett Emerson Richardson April 27th, 1917 – DOD Unit: 477th Bombardment Group Service # 0-713053 From: Philadelphia, PA Lt. Everett Emerson Richardson was a

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Price D. Rice

Price D. Rice October 22, 1916 – February 21, 1999 Class: 42-I-SE Graduation date: 10/9/1942 Rank at time of graduation: 2nd Lt. Unit: 99th Fighter

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Henry D. Polite

Henry D. Polite 1926 – May 8, 2023 Born in Philadelphia in 1926 and later settling in Los Angeles, Polite faithfully served his country as

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Isadore Robinson 

Isadore M. “Ike” Robinson  December 29, 1921 ~ January 21, 2016 For many of the Tuskegee Airmen their time in the U.S. Army Air Corps was only

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Wallace Higgins 

Wallace C. Higgins  November 11, 1925 – August 22, 2018 Higgins, born in 1926 in Kendall, N.Y., was always driven by an intense fascination with

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Robert Maxwell

Robert Lee Maxwell APRIL 5, 1922 – AUGUST 27, 2010 Class: 44-I-1-TE Graduation date: 10/16/1944 Rank at time of graduation: Flt. Officer Unit: 477th Bombardier Group Service

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Claude Platte

CPT Claude Robert Platte, Jr March 16, 1921 – September 27, 2013 Claude was born to Claude and Marie Scott Platte Sr. in Denison on

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George Porter

George Wyatt Porter Sept. 19, 1921- February 9, 2013 Tuskegee Airman George Porter said the success of him and his comrades was due to hard

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Maurice Pompey

Maurice Dale Pompey, Sr. May 14, 1923 – August 14, 2002 Class: 44-G-TE Graduation date: 8/4/1944 Rank at time of graduation: Flt. Officer Unit: 618th

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