Reflections Of A Tuskegee Airman

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Channel: Kansas City Star · 2015 · News & Politics

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John H. Adams, Jr., 96, of Kansas City, Kan., was a 2nd Lieutenant in 1944-1945 with the Tuskegee Airmen, America's first black military pilots and squadron support personnel. On Wednesday, he and other members of the Tuskegee Airmen Heart of America chapter viewed The Rise Above, a traveling exhibit that features a short documentary movie about the Tuskegee Airmen. The exhibit, put on by Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Red Trail Squadron will be open to the public on Thursday at Robert Brogden Buick GMC in Olathe, as well as on Saturday and Sunday at the Kansas City Aviation Expo & Air Show at the Wheeler Downtown Airport. Video by Tammy Ljungblad/[email protected]

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