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Offline Krusher

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« on: September 23, 2002, 07:03:11 PM »


http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm11054_20020923.htm

World War II jets a part of Tuskegee airman's funeral

Monday, September 23, 2002

BY JOEL THURTELL and NANCY A. YOUSSEF
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

That was no airliner being escorted by a pair of fighter jets over north Detroit and southern Oakland County Monday afternoon.

It was a World War II B-17 bomber flying with a World War II P-51 fighter and a post-World War II T-28 training plane.


The flight was part of the funeral for Tuskegee Airman Wardell Alphonso Polk, who was buried in Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery Monday afternoon,

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« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2002, 10:45:39 PM »
"People thought it was an airliner escorted by two F-16s.''


a pony looks like an F-16?


to Airman Polk,  a true American:(