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The proven ability of the Tuskegee Airmen was a factor in the decision to eliminate racial discrimination in the military. On July 26, 1948, President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981 to end discrimination in the armed forces. By 1952, the personnel of the last all-black unit in the U. S. Air Force had been distributed throughout other units.
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Wings for This Man (1945), a "propaganda" short about the Tuskegee Airmen, was produced by the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Forces. The film was narrated by Ronald Reagan.[23]
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Sikes, 81... is an original Tuskegee Airmen from Austin. Dr. Sikes was 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Force from 1943 to 1946. He received numerous awards including the Good Conduct Medal and many Gunnery medals. He was later the Director of Veterans Counseling Service at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
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During the 1940s, Harshaw was a physical therapy technician serving the Tuskegee Airmen near Columbus, Ohio. She worked at various Air Force bases nationwide starting in the late 1940s and was transferred to Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1968, where she retired in 1973. She has been a member of the Half Century Club since 1997.
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