The Father of the Tuskegee Airmen Led the Fight Against Fascism in Africa
Col. John Robinson poses next to Ethiopia s Lion of Judah symbol, which represent Emperor Haile Selassie I. Robinson died in a 1950 plane crash and is buried in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Tigray Online)
In 1935, fascism was on the rise in Europe and Asia, but the world had not yet had to fight its territorial expansion on a global scale. Adolf Hitler had been elected as chancellor of Germany just two years prior, and Hideki Tojo was still six years away from bringing the United States into World War II.