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Title: Lost anouther hero
Post by: Hornet33 on August 26, 2008, 10:19:27 AM: Richmond - Lt. Col. Howard Lee Baugh, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, has died.

Baugh died Saturday at a suburban Richmond hospital after a brief illness. He was 88.

The Prince George County resident enlisted in the Army in 1942 and joined the all-black fighter group that trained at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

Baugh flew 135 combat missions as part of the 332nd Fighter Group's 99th Fighter Squadron in Sicily, Italy, during World War II.

During his career with the Army, he won the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Air Force Commendation Medal and the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award. In 2004, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor.

A funeral is scheduled for Sept. 4 in Petersburg. Burial will be later in Arlington National Cemetery.

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Post by: MjTalon on August 26, 2008, 10:23:03 AM: :salute

My PRAP counselor at my academy i just graduated from his brother was one of the original Tuskegee Airmen as well. He's deceased and my counselor ( Mr. White ) is a retired Special Forces.
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Post by: JHerne on August 26, 2008, 10:36:05 AM: :salute

To think about what these men went through...becoming a fighter pilot was no easy task. To do it with all of the racial hatred and bigotry of the time, truly sets these men apart.

Godspeed, fair skies, and the wind at your back.

J
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Post by: RATTFINK on August 26, 2008, 11:14:18 AM: (http://www.tuskegeeairmen.org/images/332fg_f6uj.jpg)

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Post by: Yossarian on August 26, 2008, 12:35:48 PM: God bless him and :salute
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Post by: Slash27 on August 26, 2008, 05:34:30 PM: :salute
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Post by: Shuffler on August 26, 2008, 05:49:35 PM: Thanks to Gentlemen such as he, we can post on boards like this in a free country.

God Bless him and his family.

(http://www.nwafa.net/album2/slides/Tuskegee%20Airmen%20.jpg)

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Post by: redman555 on August 26, 2008, 06:43:06 PM: :salute

-BigBOBCH
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Post by: BaDkaRmA158Th on August 26, 2008, 07:14:46 PM: Some of my most highly respected airmen.
Big time. :salute
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Post by: BiPoLaR on August 27, 2008, 01:41:18 AM: :salute Sir :salute