Tag: Tuskegee Airman

Tuskegee Airman Leslie Edwards dies at Cincinnati VA Hospital | WCPO

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WCPO staff, WCPO Leslie Edwards, 93, of Springfield Township, is a Tuskegee Airman who served as a mechanic during World War II. (Photo: The Enquirer/Liz Dufour). Featured Image [dropcap]L[/dropcap]eslie Edwards didn’t talk about his military career during his daughter’s childhood — or her adulthood, for that matter. Imogene Bowers was 50 years old when she […]

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Dr. Granville Coggs of San Antonio was Tuskegee Airman and Renaissance man | My San Antonio

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Vincent Davis, My San Antonio Photo: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, STAFF / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, Featured Image [dropcap]There[/dropcap] wasn’t a challenge from which Dr. Granville Coleridge Coggs ever walked away. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] During World War II, when the U.S. military was racially segregated, Coggs, the grandson of slaves, completed pilot training to become one of the […]

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