The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Two Members of Famed Tuskegee Airmen and Best Friends Die on Same Day

From the Jan. 12, 2015, Star-Tribune by John Rogers.

Clarence E. Hunley and Joseph Shambrey grew up running track in the same Los Angeles neighborhood in the 1930s.  They both enlisted in the U.S. Army and then joined the famed Tuskegee Airmen together.  They were mechanics

After the war, they came home and married their respective sweethearts and got together almost once a month.

Around 19,000 men were in the Tuskegee Airmen counting pilots and ground personnel.

Quite a Story of Friendship.  --GreGen

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