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   Black History Month: Pioneering black air unit of WWII included pilots   
   with Oklahoma ties   
      
       By Tim Stanley Tulsa World Feb 9, 2019 Updated 1 hr ago   
      
   Tuskegee Airmen   
      
   A group of Tuskegee Airmen is pictured sometime in 1942 or 1943.   
      
   February is Black History Month, and the Tulsa World will be   
   publishing stories and daily facts throughout the month.   
      
   The black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, who fought the racial   
   discrimination of the World War II era to distinguish themselves in   
   the skies over Europe, included a few with Oklahoma ties.   
      
   One of them, Charles B. Hall — the first black American pilot to shoot   
   down an enemy plane in combat and the first to receive a Distinguished   
   Flying Cross — lived for years in Oklahoma City while stationed at   
   Tinker Air Force Base, where Charles B. Hall Airpark is named in his   
   honor.   
      
   Faythe McGinnis of Muskogee, in a tragic twist of fate, was the first   
   in the legendary unit to die. He was killed in a training crash.   
      
   tim.stanley@tulsaworld.com   
      
   Twitter: @timstanleyTW   
      
      
      
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