Visiting 'Tuskegee' Veteran Undertakes Postwar Mission
Published 04.08.2015
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![A crowd gathers in the Klump Academic Center Auditorium to hear "The History of the Tuskegee Airmen" presented by Eugene J. Richardson Jr.](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2015/04/6007509-e1428502751753-150x150.jpg)
![Richardson details the struggles and triumphs of the 992 African-American military pilots trained in Tuskegee, Alabama, from 1941-46.](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2015/04/6007536-e1428502833750-150x150.jpg)
![Pre-Tuskegee pilots included "local boy" Emory Conrad Malick (1881-1958), who grew up in Huntingdon and Northumberland counties and was the first licensed African-American aviator.](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2015/04/6007526-150x150.jpg)
![Richardson receives considerable applause as he shows his Congressional Gold Medal, presented to the Tuskegee Airmen in March 2007 in the Capitol Rotunda.](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2015/04/6007566-e1428502794177-150x150.jpg)
![Footage of WWII endeavors enhances the presentation.](http://www.pct.edu/files/news/images/2015/04/6007548-150x150.jpg)
Published 04.08.2015
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