A Distinguished Flyer

ID: 5478 ~ Source: “D.F.C. Is Given To Negro Pilot” The Spokesman-Review. September 12, 1944.
- Image courtesy of Google News Archives ~ Creator: The Spokesman-Review ~ Date: September 12, 1944
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Holsclaw was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in Italy alongside two fellow Tuskegee Airmen. 96 D.F.C. medals were awarded to the men of the 332nd throughout WWII.

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By Devrick Barnett
Though the US military was still racially segregated during the Second World War The 332nd Fighter Group of the Army Air Corps gained fame as an all-Black unit of pilots. Known as the Tuskegee Airmen due to training in the Tuskegee Institute in…