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Roy E. LaGrone, a retired art director and illustrator who flew with the Tuskegee airmen in World War II. Mr. LaGrone discovered his love for flying as a teen-ager when he paid 50 cents to have a barnstorming stunt pilot take him up in a Ford Trimotor airplane in Pine Bluff, Ark., his native town.
"As soon as I got up there, I knew absolutely that this was what I wanted to do,"
Mr. LaGrone became an Air Force artist who recorded flying missions on canvas. He retired in 1991 as the art director of the Rutgers University Medical School. Mr. LaGrone passed in April of 2011.
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Tuskegee Airman Spann Watson is depicted after WWII in front of a P-47 Thunderbo...
Tuskegee Airman Spann Watson is depicted after WWII in front of a P-47 Thunderbolt. Born on 14 August 1916, Spann graduated in Class 42F. The fourth group of pilots to do so. He was an original member of the 99th fighter squadron. Watson deployed to North Africa with the 99th and flew combat missions over North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Southern Europe. He remained in the Air Force after WWII and retired as Lieutenant Colonel in 1965. A recipient of the Tuskegee Congressional Gold Medal, Colonel Watson passed away on 15 April 2010 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Section 8, Site 8383.
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