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332nd Fighter Group, Tuskegee Airman. (Courtesy photo)

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Benjamin Fleming, an African-American veteran of the Battle of Lake Erie. In his early life, Fleming was a seaman aboard coasting vessels and Delaware pilot boats. (Courtesy photo)

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Charles Drew was an American physician and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge in developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II, saving thousands of Allied lives. (Courtesy Photo)

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An artist’s conception of Crispus Attucks. Mr. Attucks was one of five people killed in the Boston Massacre in Boston, Massachusetts. He has been frequently named as the first martyr of the American Revolution and is the only Boston Massacre victim whose name is commonly remembered. (Courtesy photo)

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Doris Miller was commended by the Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox on April 1, 1942, and on May 27, 1942 he received the Navy Cross, which Fleet Admiral (then Admiral) Chester W. Nimitz, the Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet personally presented to Miller on-board aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) for his extraordinary courage in battle. (Courtesy Photo)

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Eugene Bullard, America’s first black aviator did not fly for the country of his birth, America, but for his adopted country of France. (Courtesy Photo)

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Sgt. Maj. Lewis Douglass served with the 54th Massachusetts during the ill-fated assault on Battery Wagner, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, on July 18, 1863. He was wounded but soon recovered. (Courtesy Photo)

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1st Louisiana Native Guard which later became the 73rd Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops, was one of the first all-black regiments to fight in the Union Army during the American Civil War. (Courtesy Photo)

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Published Feb. 18, 2009
By Staff Sgt. Ronald Lafosse
22nd Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs

MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE, Kan. --

A walk through time

A walk through time

A walk through time

A walk through time

A walk through time

A walk through time

A walk through time

A walk through time