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Gone West: Tuskegee Airman Col. Paul Green

Flew 25 Combat Missions With The 99th Fighter Squadron

Another of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen has Gone West. The Military Times relays a report from the Riverside (CA) Press-Enterprise that Col. Paul Green passed away at Brightwater Senior Living on Monday. Col. Green was 91.

Col. Green grew up an orphan in Xenia, OH, according to the report. After being drafted into the Army, he was sent to Tuskegee, AL for pilot training. He flew bomber escort missions in Italy as a member of the 99th Fighter Squadron.

“Once you achieve something, you make it easier for everyone,” Green said in an interview in 2009. “We proved we were not a bunch of dummies; that we could fly airplanes and we were capable of doing whatever everyone else does. Just the color of our skin was different.”

Green went on to join the U.S. Air Force and served in Vietnam. He later was tapped as commander of Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, CA.

According to the Press-Enterprise, the City Council last week voted to name a street in a new subdivision "Paul Green Drive."

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