Category: Profiles of Tuskegee Airmen

Charles Madison Crenchaw

African-American mountaineer and veteran flight engineer September 11, 1921 – October 27, 1998 On July 9, 1964, Charles Crenchaw became the first African-American to summit

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Voris Stevenson James

Voris Stevenson James April 11, 1919 – December 8, 1946 Class: 44-I-TE Graduation Date: 12/28/1944 Unit: 332nd Fighter Group, 100th Fighter Squadron Service # 0839099

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Thomas Marvin Ellis

The first enlisted administrative clerk of the 301st Fighter Squadron!  June 29, 1920  – January 2, 2018 More than a decade before Rosa Parks refused

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James H. Harvey, III

James H. Harvey, III July 13, 1923  – Class 44-1-1-SE Graduation date: 10/16/1944 Rank at time of graduation: 2nd Lt. Unit: 99th Fighter Squadron of

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Alva Temple

Alva Temple September 5, 1917 – August 28, 2004 Class 43-G-SE Graduation Date: 7/28/1943 Service # 0809256 Carrollton, A Alva Temple was born in Carrollton,

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