Another Death

 One of the last living pilots who were part of The Tuskegee Airmen has died. The AP reports:

OVIEDO, Fla. (AP) — Raymond Cassagnol, a Haitian pilot and a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed group of Black military aviators during World War II, has died. He was 102.

Cassagnol died June 24 at his home in Florida, according his daughter, Dominique Cassagnol Ballacchino.

Cassagnol was one of three Haitian servicemen initially selected to join an experimental program in Tuskegee, Alabama, for Black soldiers seeking to train as pilots after the Army Air Corps was forced to admit Black Americans.

 "A total of 932 men graduated from the Tuskegee Flight School. This list provides the Tuskegee Airmen names, class number, graduation date, rank held at Tuskegee, serial number, and hometown. Among these, 355 served in active duty during World War Two as fighter pilots. Sixty-six Tuskegee Airmen died in combat."