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Image Title: Black Fighter Pilot Series: Escape Kits (Cyanide) Being Distributed To Fighter Pilots At Air Base In Southern Italy, 1945

Creator: Frissell, Toni, 1907-1988, photographer

Date: 1945 March

Summary: Photo shows (seated): Theodore G. Lumpkin, Jr. Standing (left to right): Joseph L. "Joe" Chineworth, Memphis, TN, Class 44-E; Robert C. Robinson, Asheville, NC, Class 44-G; Driskell B. Ponder, Chicago, IL, Class 43-I; Robert W. Williams, Ottumwa, IA, Class 44-E. Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945. (Source: Photographer's notes and Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group pilots.)

Subjects: African Americans--Military service--1940-1950
Fighter pilots--American--Italy--1940-1950
United States.--Army Air Forces.--Fighter Group, 332nd--People--1940-1950
World War, 1939-1945--African Americans--Italy
World War, 1939-1945--Air operations--American--Italy

Original Media: Photograph

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