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AMERICAN HISTORY

Two Mechanics for Tuskegee Airmen Die on Same Day in Same City

January 11, 2015 – Two mechanics for the famous all-black World War II fighter squadron known as the Tuskegee Airmen passed away on January 5 just hours apart at their respective homes in Los Angeles.  Clarence E Huntley Jr. and Joseph Shambrey, lifelong friends, enlisted together in 1942 as teenagers.  Both were 91.

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