An estimate in 2021 stated that the number of Tuskegee Airmen still living is less than 400.
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Charles McGee was one of the handfuls of Tuskegee Airmen pilots still alive in 2022. He died, at the age of 102 in 2022.
Most of the Tuskegee Airmen died in combat, some were killed overseas during WWII, in accidents or were killed overseas in training accidents or non-combat related incidents.
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The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in the United States Armed Forces.
The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of pilots, navigators, bombardiers, maintenance and support staff, and instructors who were trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama during World War II.
On 29 March 2007, the Tuskegee Airmen were collectively awarded a Congressional Gold Medal at a ceremony in the U.S. Capitol rotunda.
In 2008, the Tuskegee Airmen were inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum,


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