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Archive Home > 2011 > August > 06 > Their ranks growing thin, Tuskegee Airmen remain revered

Their ranks growing thin, Tuskegee Airmen remain revered

By Avis Thomas-Lester / The Bulletin
August 6, 2011

WASHINGTON — They came from as far away as Hawaii, silver-haired heroes converging on their nation’s capital to celebrate their place in history.

But the fact that there were so many fewer of them this year was painfully obvious to the heroes.

They once numbered 15,000 — 992 pilots, 200....

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