Tampa Bay area Tuskegee Airman deserved name for work he did on the ground
Family and friends of Willie Rogers applaud after the Association for the Study of African American Life and History presented Rogers with a 100th birthday pin at the St. Petersburg Museum of History in August 2015. Questions would be raised later, after Rogers' death last November, about whether he really was a member of the Tuskeegee Airmen. [Times file]
By
Paul GuzzoFormer Culture and Hillsborough Reporter
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