This Saturday, April 26, historian and educator Jon Fiorella will close the 2025 winter lecture series at Barnegat Lighthouse State Park with a discussion of the history of Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Force. His talk will take place at 1 p.m. at the park’s visitor information center and last about an hour. Admission is free.
The airmen trained at the Tuskegee Army Airfield in Alabama and flew both fighter and bomber planes in more than 15,000…
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