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  • Tuskegee aviators share stories of war, discrimination

    02/24/2006 8:08:28 PM PST · by Former Military Chick · 46 replies · 796+ views
    Stars and Stripes ^ | February 25, 2006 | Scott Schonauer
    SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany — Lee Archer was once so frustrated with the way the military treated him and other blacks, he considered leaving the service. In the midst of World War II and during his training at the famed Tuskegee Institute, he thought about going to Canada like his father suggested. But what another black aviator told him changed his mind and taught him a lifelong lesson on patriotism. “He said, ‘Wait a minute, Lee. Settle down,’” Archer, a retired Army Air Corps lieutenant colonel, recalled. “Then, he made this great speech. He said, ‘You have a right to...
  • World War II Flying 'Ace' Salutes Racial Progress

    02/20/2004 11:13:52 AM PST · by Calpernia · 12 replies · 519+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Feb. 20, 2004 | By Gerry J. Gilmore
    Decorated World War II aviator and "Ace" Lee Andrew Archer Jr., 84, says he dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot at an early age. The Yonkers, N.Y.-born veteran recalled reading comic books during his boyhood that featured illustrated stories depicting World War I duels in the skies between Germany's Baron von Richthofen and allied fliers. "I wanted to be a pilot," Archer said at a Feb. 19 National Black History Month commemoration ceremony at Veterans Affairs Department headquarters, noting that watching planes take off and land at a small airport near his family's summer home in Saratoga, N.Y., also whetted...