Article: Nine for the shrine: Aircraft museum adds names of 9 World War II-era black soldiers.

Byline: Nick Bonham

Feb. 19--Pueblo's Original Nine have been enshrined.

Clyde Wilhite, Kenzie Hull, William Ray, Floyd Hamlett, Albert Sims, Hewitt Wilkerson, Joe Bell, Robert Howlett and Joe Blade - all black servicemen stationed at Pueblo Army Air Base during World War II - were inducted Saturday into the Weisbrod Aircraft Museum.

The inductees may never have the historic fame as the Tuskegee Airmen, black fighter pilots - one which was present for Saturday's ceremony - but these nine men played significant roles in everyday operations of the air base.

"The role of the African-American was critical," said Ray Sisson, the museum's ...

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