The Tuskegee Airmen were an elite group of African-American fighter pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps who trained during the time of government-sanctioned Jim Crow laws. Williams, who grew up in San Mateo, earned his wings in 1943 when he graduated with the first African-American bomber pilot group. [...] by the time the full African-American cockpit crew was trained and ready for combat, World War II was over.
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