{"id":75318,"date":"2017-10-12T08:35:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T12:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75318"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:47:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:47:25","slug":"russ-minton-phony-tuskegee-airman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75318","title":{"rendered":"Russ Minton; phony Tuskegee Airman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Russ Minton, who was interviewed in Washington, DC by WTOP<\/a> about his time with the Tuskegee Airmen when he visited the African-American History Museum;<\/p>\n

Minton served in 1944 in Ramitelli, Italy, as part of the Tuskegee Airmen. He was a flight cadet, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps, the predecessor to the Air Force.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a couple things about Tuskegee Airmen that I disagree with but I can\u2019t find who to talk with to correct them,\u201d he said after visiting the museum\u2019s Tuskegee Airmen exhibit.<\/p>\n

Minton said Alfred Anderson gave him his first flying lesson. Anderson, known as the \u201cFather of Black Aviation, lived down the street from him in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Yeah, Minton was born in 1932, so he was 12 years old in 1944 when he claims he was a cadet pilot and a second lieutenant. Ron Brewington, the Tuskegee historian says that Minton’s name doesn’t appear on any roster of Tuskegee Airmen.<\/p>\n

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He didn’t join the military until 1959. When Minton joined the Army National Guard, he was a Battalion Surgeon for an artillery unit in Boston, the only active duty that he had was for training and he left the Guard after nine years and never set foot outside of the United States in uniform the whole time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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