One of the last remaining Tuskegee Airmen in Arizona died last week, according to Fox 10. He was 95. Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Ashby passed away at his home on March 5. He was the first African-American hired by Frontier Airlines after he retired from the air force, according to reports. Ashby enlisted in the Army Air Corps Aviation Cadet program when he was 17 and was called to active duty in August 1944 following his graduation from Ferris High School in New Jersey. Later that year, he began his aviation training in Tuskegee, Alabama. He joined Frontier […]
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