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Book

Forgotten souls

Call Number

  • 940.544 T4692 (CEN, OSH, POW)

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Edition

First Kensington hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Dafina, an imprint of Kensington Publishing, 2026.

Physical Description

xxvi, 211 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Summary

The Tuskegee Airmen-- the first African American military aviators in the U.S. Armed Forces, trained at Tuskegee Army Air Fields in Alabama between 1941 and 1946 and fought for America in WWII. Cheryl W. Thompson, NPR investigative journalist and the daughter of a Tuskegee Airman, explores the stories of 27 of these men-- specifically those who went missing in combat. Thompson looks at the lives they lived, the reasons their planes went down, why the remains of all but two were never found, and the impact their disappearances had on their families and communities.

Contents

  • Prologue
  • Making history
  • Same old, same old
  • Are you my brother?
  • Lost forever
  • Cruel fate
  • Forgotten souls
  • Together til' the end
  • The others
  • Plane troubles
  • We found him?
  • Life after death
  • Epilogue
  • The forgotten souls
  • Acknowledgments
  • Endnotes (pages 177-196)
  • Index.

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