Homer Hogues, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, died this week in Dallas, just two days after the death of his wife. He was 96.
Hogues, who served in the US military as an airplane mechanic and attained the enlisted rank of staff sergeant, died Tuesday and his wife, Mattie Bell, died Sunday, the obituary said. The pair was married for more than 70 years. Hogues enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1946, according to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and served as a mechanic for the 99th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group – one of the US military’s first units of Black aviators.
He was “loved and appreciated especially with the youth ministry as chief mechanic and bus driver for summer youth trips,” the obituary said. After leaving the military, Hogues struggled to get his dream job with an airline, he told The Dallas Morning News. “They said the only thing I could do was gut planes and sweep the floors and all that kind of stuff,” he said. “I thought that was a slap in the face.
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