Pentagon identifies Tuskegee Airman missing from World War II (WaPo)

by Michael E. Ruane July 27 Email the author

The Defense Department announced Friday that it has accounted for the first of more than two dozen black aviators known as Tuskegee Airmen who went missing in action during World War II.

Capt. Lawrence E. Dickson, a fighter pilot who had trained at the Tuskegee Army Flying School, was 24 when he went down over Austria on Dec. 23, 1944, while on a mission.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) had been investigating the possibility that human remains and other items found at a crash site in Austria this past summer were Dickson’s.
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There were 27 Tuskegee Airmen missing from the war. Now there are 26.
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Dickson was on his 68th mission and had already been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for meritorious service.
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Damn. A crackerjack pilot lost ultimately to engine trouble.