“Chappie” was born in Pensacola, Fla., in 1920, the youngest of 17 children. At the age of 17 during World War II he and a number of other Black men went off to college at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. There the young men also trained ...
Blackman and Robin
As he put it: “Bombers drop bombs. Fighter pilots fight. It was simply the way it was meant to be.”