In 1943, Charles B. Hall became the first African-American fighter pilot to take down an enemy aircraft. The strike on the enemy aircraft happened on July 2, 1943, while Hall was a member of the 99th Fighter Squadron. Hall was on an escort mission of B-25 medium bombers on a raid on Castelvetrano in southwestern Sicily, […]

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