Remembering the Tuskegee Airmen of the NW on the squad's 80th anniversary

Published: March 22, 2021, 7:51 p.m.

The Tuskegee Airmen are some of the most well-known Black soldiers to serve in World War II, but we hear so little about the few who came from right here in the northwest. Thomas Gray is the recording secretary for the local Sam Bruce Chapter. He wasn't a pilot himself, but when the retired Boeing engineer happened to go by one of their meetings decades ago, the airmen invited him to become a member.