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Ex-Tuskegee Airman Alfred Thomas Farrar dies at age 99

| December 21, 2020 12:08 AM

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Alfred Thomas Farrar, a former Tuskegee Airman, died on Thursday in Virginia only days before a ceremony planned to honor his service in the program that famously trained Black military pilots during World War II. He was 99.

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