Two members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the all-black Army Air Corps squadron that flew during World War Two, died recently. They were both 91 and both died on 5 January 2015, their families said Sunday.Rico says that all wars have their 'last man', and they're getting close...
Clarence E. Huntley Jr. and Joseph Shambrey were lifelong friends who enlisted together in 1942, The Associated Press reports. They worked as mechanics on the combat planes. After the war, Huntley became a skycap at airports in Burbank and Los Angeles, California, and Shambrey worked with the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation.
Both men died in their homes in Los Angeles.
12 January 2015
More good ones gone
Tessa Berenson has a Time article about good men, passing:
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