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A portrait of Edward M. Thomas, one of the
Tuskegee Airmen
, the first
African American
pilots in
United States military history
. During
World War II
, the
U.S. military
was still
racially segregated
. In 1941, the
Army Air Corps
formed the
99th Pursuit Squadron
. Their first combat assignment was to attack the island of
Pantelleria
in preparation for the
Allied invasion of Sicily
. On
June 11
, 1943, the island surrendered; it was the first time in history an enemy's military resistance had been overcome solely by air power.
Photo:
Toni Frissell
; Restoration:
Lise Broer
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