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Maxwell AFB, AL - Retired Lt. Col. Leo Gray, 2016 Gathering of Eagles honoree, shares his experiences as a pilot of the 332nd Fighter Group, the first all African-American flying unit, during the Air Command and Staff College’s 2016 Gathering of Eagles event, May 31, 2016, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. He completed 15 combat missions over German-occupied territory and logged in 750 flying hours. After the war, Gray earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in agricultural economics and became an executive with the U.S. Department of Agriculture until his retirement in 1984. Gray played a leading role in the Tuskegee Airmen Inc. organization, which provides scholarships to minorities studying aviation and aerospace. He served as president of the Miami and East Coast chapters. I’m very proud of him and what he’s accomplished,” said his son, Roger Gray, who served in the Navy and in the Air Force reserves. Gray’s youngest daughter, Kathryn Bryant, has fond memories of many summer road trips the family would take when Gray had to travel for work. “He was an awesome dad. He was our hero, and not everyone can say that about their dad,” she said. “He was very supportive. He was proud of his children.” Gray is also survived by his wife, Dianne Gray, and daughter Lynette Gayles. He is also survived by four stepchildren and a host of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. [Source: Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel | Rebeca Piccardo | September 25, 2016 ++] ***************************** WWII Vets [118] ► Arnold Sellars | Pilot The first time Arnol Sellars flew one in the skies over Europe, he was sold on the P-47 Thunderbolt. “It was a good ol’ airplane,” he said. “You could shoot all kinds of bits off of it and it would still bring you home.” But it wasn’t invulnerable. And on his 56th and final mission of World War II, Sellars learned that the hard way. Forced to bail out of his plane after taking two direct hits, he spent the last few weeks of the war in a German hospital with a broken leg. Sellars knows he was lucky. Many other airmen who were shot down over Europe died, either there or later as a result of their injuries. It was partly those airmen Sellars was thinking of a few years ago when he took on a project that remains close to his heart.  
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