February 25, 1918 – March 6, 2014 Class: 42-D-SE 4/29/1942 2nd Lt. 0789120 Cleveland, OH Unit: 99th Fighter Squadron Awards: Air Medal with seven oak leaf clusters; Honorary Doctor of Public Service by Tuskegee University; Congressional Gold Medal; Given the key to the City of Cleveland Pilot roster listing Virtual […]
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George Jewell Iles
November 6, 1918 – December 9, 2004 Class: SE-44-E Unit: 332nd Fighter Group, 99th Pursuit Squadron Pilot roster listing WWII Draft Registration papers When Colonel George J. Iles Elementary School (QPS, District 172) opened its doors in August 2018, students from Quincy, Illinois, started classes in a building named for […]
Herbert E. Carter
September 27, 1919 – November 8, 2012 Class 42-F-SE 7/3/1942 2nd Lt. 0790454 Amory, MS Unit: 99th Pursuit Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group Pilot roster listing https://www.redtail.org/the-tuskegee-airmen/tuskegee-airmen-roster/ Academic administrator and Tuskegee Airman Herbert E. Carter was born on September 27, 1919 in Amory, Mississippi to parents Willie Ann Sykes […]
George S. “Spanky” Roberts
Class 42-C-SE 3/6/1942 2nd Lt. 0441127 Fairmont, WV September 24, 1918-March 8, 1984 Unit: 99th Pursuit Squadron (later known as the Fighter Squadron) Awards: Air Force Commendation Medal with four oak clusters and two presidential citations, bronze replica of the Congressional Gold Medal Pilot roster listing Roberts was born in London, […]
Paul L. Green
Class 44-G-SE 8/4/1944 2nd Lt. 0835417 Xenia, OH June 19, 1923 – February 23, 2015 Unit: 99th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group Awards: Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal, Bronze Star, Presidential Unit Citation, all with Oak Leaf Clusters, bronze replica of the Congressional Gold Medal Pilot roster listing “We [referring […]