Article: HEROIC 'COMPANY GRADE OFFICERS' DIES

LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., Aug. 3 -- The Los Angeles Air Force Base issued the following news release:

By Lt. Col. Ivan Thompson SMC/DS

I went to the funeral of Roger "Bill" Terry. I'd met him a few times and he was always friendly and never seemed to have left his smile at home. Bill Terry was a Tuskegee Airman. It was only at his funeral that it dawned on me that when we think of the Tuskegee Airmen we think of them as old men, men the age of our grandparents. But many of these heroic men, who are now in their late 80s and early nineties, were Company Grade Officers (CGOs), captains and lieutenants, when they made history. The incredible accomplishments and heroic acts, that they ...

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