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To honor the service of the Tuskegee Airmen, the Post-Dispatch developed this site dedicated to providing an accurate accounting of those awarded the Purple Heart. The site will serve as a living memorial that will be continually updated as new information about airmen who may have received the award is verified.
To contribute information about the Tuskegee Airmen, please contact either Phillip O'Connor at poconnor@post-dispatch.com or Erica Smith esmith@post-dispatch.com. previous stories
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purple heart recipients
The Post-Dispatch reviewed a government database, military records and other sources, and has found more than 50 Tuskegee Airmen who earned a Purple Heart during World War II. Learn more about each recipient.
The following airmen received the award, as verified by military sources: Hugh J. White
The following airmen appear to have received the award, though that could not be verified with the same degree of certainty as the others: Lee Rayford
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Autobiographies "A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman" by Charles W. Dryden
"Benjamin O. Davis Jr.: American" by Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
"Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW" by Alexander Jefferson
"Survival! A Purple Heart Tuskegee Airman" by John Steward Sloan Sr.
Biography "Tuskegee Airmen: The Biography of Charles E. McGee" by Charlene E. McGee Smith
Histories "The 332nd Fighter Group – Tuskegee Airmen" by Chris Bucholtz
"Black Knights: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen" by Lynn M. Homan and Thomas Reilly
"Double V: The Civil Rights Struggle of the Tuskegee Airmen" by Lawrence P. Scott and William M. Womack Sr.
"The Tuskegee Airmen: The Men Who Changed a Nation" by Charles E. Francis and Adolph Caso
"Tuskegee Airmen Mutiny at Freeman Field" by James C. Warren
Documentaries Online American Visionaries: Tuskegee Airmen, National Park Service
Tuskegee Airmen facts, Tuskegee University
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