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...Tuskegee airmen never lost a bomber they escorted,” Heilbrun told the crowd of 50. “There’s a good chance I wouldn’t be sitting here today if it wasn’t for them...
...Never mind that a few other people - British airmen trying to dodge American missiles, members of the 101st Airborne hoping to survive a night's sleep and countless Iraqi grunts and civilians - experienced an Oscar week so taxing that they didn't live to see the ceremony. Have some sympathy, please, for a tailor's publicist facing the wartime challenge of getting Jennifer Lopez into one of his client's gowns. And, Lo, she looked ravishing in a vintage off-the-shoulder Grecian-style number (that was once worn by Jacqueline Kennedy) with flowered brocade edging I last...
...ideal launchpad for the so-called Tokkotai, or Special Attack Corps. Tome ran the Tomiya eatery in Chiran. The pilots, many still teenagers, spent their last days hanging around her place. She cooked their favorite meals, smuggled their farewell letters to sweethearts past military censors, and gave the airmen their final hugs goodbye. Tome, then a middle-aged mother of two girls, "often said she cherished each (pilot) as if he were her own son," says Akihisa Torihama, 42, her grandson and a resident of Chiran...
DIED. BENJAMIN DAVIS JR., 89, first black general of the Air Force, who led a group of all-black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen; in Washington. In a segregated military during World War II, Davis and his men escorted bombers over Europe; their success is credited with helping integrate the armed forces...
...meet him in a postwar work camp, where--this much of the story is true--the Soviets imprisoned the airmen who fought with the Western allies lest they infect the workers' paradise with democratic insouciance. Franta tells his tale in flashbacks: during the war his girlfriend in Czechoslovakia (Linda Rybova) and a lovely Englishwoman (the heartbreaking Tara Fitzgerald) left him--the first because she thought him dead, the second because her husband returned from naval service grievously wounded; his best friend, a pilot (Krystof Hadek) he mentored, died saving Franta's life; even his dog acquired a new mistress...