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Tuskegee Airman Coin: beautiful design and a fitting timely tribute.

And here is one with a picture of one of my prized possessions. The coin will never be valuable. The hat might, but I would never sell it:

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  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 12,418 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice! I would never part with the hat either!

  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The coin is cool but the hat is over the top awesome

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  • HasBeenHasBeen Posts: 40 ✭✭

    I met a Tuskegee airman once in my local grocery story. Amazing individual.

    So is that a church key in that challenge coin? If so that’s awesome!

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 27,024 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like that

  • JBKJBK Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Tuskegee Airmen have an amazing story. There is a movie or two and certainly some books if anyone is not familiar with them. It is well worth learning about.

  • OldhoopsterOldhoopster Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Back in the early 80s, one of my professors who taught the engineering labs was a Tuskegee Airman. Nobody realized the significance. I wish I would have asked him questions and heard his stories. He passed away about 10 years ago

    Member of the ANA since 1982
  • WQuarterFreddieWQuarterFreddie Posts: 2,455 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 27, 2021 4:32PM

    How did you get his autograph? Did you attach the coin or did you buy the hat that way?🤔

  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,429 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've actually met Alexander Jefferson a couple of times at airshows. He is 99 years old now, and seems younger - he must be living right.

    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I always really admired them! It’s great to see their story on a coin

    "I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" -Gef the talking mongoose.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is a very cool item - hat and autograph - What great men.
    @3stars... Where did you get that challenge coin? I have a large collection of challenge coins, and that would fit nicely. Cheers, RickO

  • JBKJBK Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 28, 2021 10:24AM

    Those are great mementos.

    I did a little googling last night and apparently there are none of the original class if Tuskegee Airmen still living. There must be a few later members who flew in WWII still around.

    I was also reminded that the unit's leader was Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., who was the first black Air Force general (after the war, as it was the Army Air Corps during the war). His father Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., was the first black army general.

    I wrote to Jr. many years ago and have some signed mementos from him. Back at that time, though, the Tuskegee Airmen was not yet as celebrated in popular culture, and none of his signed mementos reference it.

  • 3stars3stars Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    That is a very cool item - hat and autograph - What great men.
    @3stars... Where did you get that challenge coin? I have a large collection of challenge coins, and that would fit nicely. Cheers, RickO

    Was at Randolph AFB in San Antonio for a DoD program I was in, got a tour of the 99th FTS.

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wish I would have asked him questions and heard his stories

    if he was your typical WWII Vet, I doubt he would have had much to say. all the Men who spent time overseas in the two Theatres of War that I have known were pretty tight lipped, that includes my Father. he only had 1-2 stories that he told. my neighbor growing up was in the 101st Airborne and I only learned that when he died a few years ago, and our families were tight.

  • nickelsciolistnickelsciolist Posts: 176 ✭✭✭
    edited January 28, 2021 11:25AM

    @keets said:
    I wish I would have asked him questions and heard his stories

    if he was your typical WWII Vet, I doubt he would have had much to say. all the Men who spent time overseas in the two Theatres of War that I have known were pretty tight lipped, that includes my Father. he only had 1-2 stories that he told. my neighbor growing up was in the 101st Airborne and I only learned that when he died a few years ago, and our families were tight.

    Yes. My Dad was the same. He once said to me that he knew so many who had who experienced so much more horror that he didn't like telling his own story, it made him feel cheap. When he was older we learned more, especially about the survivors guilt he carried all his life; when he transferred to another unit his old crew went down a short time later and all were lost.

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