Charles McGee, a Tuskegee Airman who flew 409 fighter combat missions over three wars and later helped to bring attention to the Black pilots who had battled racism at home to fight for freedom abroad, died Sunday.
“My mother, a Black woman in an America where in the 1920s and 1930s our people were being lynched, asked us to go out and defend the American system,” said Enoch “Woody” Woodhouse, who rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Army Air Corps. “And we did.”
The 34-year-old said he was "extremely disappointed" by a court's decision Sunday that led to his deportation. But he added that he respected the ruling and would cooperate with authorities.
