Representatives from the Tuskegee Airmen, Detroit chapter, also spoke Saturday at the library as part of Black History Month. They did what they had to do, they did their job and came home.”

“A lot of people don’t realize this because these guys were so quiet and so modest,” he said. He taught in Detroit schools and became the principal of Martin Luther King Jr. He was a college-educated mathematician who worked with Albert Einstein for a while. He was awarded a Purple Heart, but few people knew about it. Macon was shot down in Germany and was a prisoner of war. He’s met more than 300 of them during his life including Capt. Of the nearly 1,000 original Tuskegee Airmen - America’s first black pilots also known as Red Tails - as few as six are still living, King said. Clair Shores Memorial Day Parade, in which members of both groups have appeared over the years. Members of local chapters of the Tuskegee Airmen were joined by the Black Pilots of America, Detroit Chapter in the Black History Month presentation at the St. Right now, there are over 10,000 pilots needed because the baby boomers are retiring.” You can be an examiner, you don’t have to be a pilot,” he said. Now he teaches young aviators and drone pilots, and notes the huge opportunity created as baby boomers in the industry retire. The Tuskegee Airman served 30 years in Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm in the U.S. He joined the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps’ in high school and then enlisted. Alfonso King remembers first wanting to become a pilot when he was in 9 th grade.

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