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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Krusher on September 23, 2002, 07:03:11 PM
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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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"People thought it was an airliner escorted by two F-16s.''
a pony looks like an F-16?
to Airman Polk, a true American:(