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Eugene Bullard
| |  SIR!!! In 1972, Bullard's exploits as a pilot were retold in a biography, The Black Swallow of Death.On 23 August 1994, thirty-three years after his death, and seventy-seven years to the day after the physical that should have allowed him to fly for his own country, Eugene Bullard was posthumously commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.The 2006 movie Flyboys loosely portrayed Bullard and his comrades in the World War I Lafayette Flying Corps.
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MSgt, USAF Retired
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