![]() ![]() ![]() Hogues was one of the more than 10,000 Black men and women who supported those pilots, the National Museum of African American History and Culture said. Before World War II, Black Americans were not allowed to become aviators in the military, but the US Army Air Corps created what was then an experimental training program for Black aviators at Alabama’s Tuskegee Army Airfield.įrom 1941 to 1946, 966 Black military aviators completed training at Tuskegee, and they formed units including the 332nd Fighter Group, according to Arlington National Cemetery. ![]() The Tuskegee Airmen were the the US military’s first Black aviators and their support personnel. Hogues enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1946, according to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and served as a mechanic for the 99th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group – one of the US military’s first units of Black aviators. The pair was married for more than 70 years. Hogues, who served in the US military as an airplane mechanic and attained the enlisted rank of staff sergeant, died Tuesday and his wife, Mattie Bell, died Sunday, the obituary said. Homer Hogues, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, died this week in Dallas, just two days after the death of his wife, according to an obituary provided by his family. ![]()
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