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Article: AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION HONORS DOOLITTLE RAIDERS, TUSKEGEE AIRMEN

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September 18, 2009
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following press release:

Several members of the Doolittle Raiders and original Tuskegee Airmen were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards from Air Force Association officials Sept. 16 at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md.

During a special dinner at the 2009 Air Force Association Air & Space Conference and Technology Exposition, AFA officials and more than 500 people in attendance paid tribute to two members who represented the 80 Airmen who flew the first bombing mission on Japan, and three members representing the first 14,994 African-American Airmen.

Retired Maj. Thomas Griffin and retired Lt. Col. Richard Cole received the ...

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