Lt. Col. James Harvey III — one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen — grew up in the Northeast’s industrial heartland in the 1920s and 30s, living the "good life"
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Colorado Springs WWII Aviation Museum featured on History Channel documentary Wednesday
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) A documentary on the historic Tuskegee Airmen, airing at 6 p.m. Wednesday on
History (the cable network also known as the
History Channel), will have a strong emphasis on Colorado Springs.
The hourlong documentary, titled
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage, will include a visit to the city s National Museum of World War II Aviation and its Tuskegee Airmen exhibit honoring the first group of Black pilots to train and serve in the military.
Gene Pfeffer, the museum s curator and historian, explained how the
History crew s visit went.
Gene Pfeffer, historian and curator at the National Museum of World War II Aviation, shows one of the Tuskegee Airmen displays at the Colorado Springs museum Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, while giving a tour of the 21-acre site at the Colorado Springs Airport. Pfeffer and the late Frank J. Macon, Tuskegee Airman and local resident, will be featured in the History Channel’s “Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage” airing Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 6 p.m. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)
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