Howard Dubose: A Brief Biography

Therefore, was accepted into the Air Force academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado in which he excelled from the start. He was selected as one out of a dozen other freshman trainees to train fly gliders. (A skill that very well may have come in handy decades later when his engines failed) By the end of that year, he had been chosen as an instructor pilot. He served in the U.S. Air Force as a fighter pilot for seven years in the time of 1973 to 1980. He flew Vietnam-era F-4 Phantom II jets. He was a training officer and flight leader, he also acquired the rank of captain whilst he was training at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. He was a commander in red flag exercises. (Red Flag exercises are a form of training where pilots receive advanced aerial combat training.) He also took part in the aircraft accident investigation

When Anthony turned 19 years old, he left his family to join the United States Marine Corps. He served a total of seven years in the Marines, traveling and living in the Carolinas, Japan and California. Anthony trained and worked as electrician in the military. He also received many awards during his service and was eventually honorably discharged in 1985.

worked at a paper mill as a supervisor, managing 6 people. Although he worked as a journeyman

worked driving a grocery wagon at the age thirteen to help support his family. He had eight

sisters, was raised in Cheyenne Wyoming by his grandparents. After graduating he followed his grandfather's path into working on the railroads. In 1941, He used to work on the railroads until he grew tired of that life and enlisted in the military that June and he was assigned to the segregated 270th Regiment of the 92nd Infantry Division.

He enlisted for a term of 3 years, under the Continental Establishment, and joined his Regiment at West Point, New York and enrolled in the 5th Company, commanded by Captain Zebulon King, in the 7th Regiment, in the Massachusetts Line, commanded by Lieutenant colonel John Brooks, in General Glover’s Brigade.

From 1942 to 1944, Robinson served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. He attended boot camp at Fort Hood in Texas,

training, he was sent to Vietnam. In Vietnam, he meets a lot of people, who later in the

He was honourably discharged as a sergeant. After he got back home he went to college, where in his senior year he met a girl named Myrlie Beasley whom he married and together they had three children. For a long time in the United States

Davis Jr. was born in Washington, D.C., in 1912. He graduated from Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1929, attended Western Reserve University in Cleveland and later the University of Chicago. He entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., in July 1932 and graduated in June 1936 with a commission as a second lieutenant of infantry. He organized the 99th Pursuit Squadron, the first entirely AfricanAmerican air unit, which flew tactical support missions in the Mediterranean theater. In 1943 he organized and commanded the 332nd Fighter Group (the Tuskegee Airmen). By the end of the war, Davis himself had flown 60 combat missions and had been promoted to

He then proceeded to Dallas to serve in the US Navy as Mess Attendant, Third Class in September 1939, in which was the only military job classification officially open to African-Americans at the time. He had

George completed his basic training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California. He later transferred to Headquarters and Service Company, 2d Battalion, Camp Elliott, San Diego, California, in September 1942. When he arrived he was promoted to private first class and later advanced to corporal.

Before finishing high school, he landed a job at Kensworth Trucking Company. A few months after graduating at twenty, Ridgway enlisted in the Navy. He went to Vietnam and served on board a supply ship. While enlisted, he had sexual encounters with prostitutes.

He went to work when he was sixteen, and for the next forty years he worked in a coal factory. Then he worked in a steel mill for another twenty years. He stopped working only because the steel mill closed and he was too old to find another job.

He worked as a keeper of a market. Then he was a farm worker who took care of parks and farm