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Mr. Lumpkin

Mr. Lumpkin

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Tuskegee Airman Theodore Lumpkin Jr. dies in L.A.

One of the famed Tuskegee Airmen — the first Black pilots in the segregated U.S. military and among the most respected fighter pilots of World War II — has died from complications of the coronavirus, it was announced last Friday. Theodore Lumpkin Jr. was just days short of his 101st birthday.