Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Retired History Professor Honored for Tuskegee Airmen Article
Wesley Newton, a former professor in Auburn University's history department, has been honored for an article he co-wrote with Jerome Ennels and Joseph Caver, historians at the Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base, about the first two Tuskegee Airmen lost in combat.
Records showed that 1st Lt. Sherman White Jr. of Montgomery and 2nd Lt. James McCullin of St. Louis, were shot down over Italy, but the authors of the article -- which was published in Air Power History -- discovered that they may have met another fate.
The article was selected as the Best Air Power History Article of 2008.
More information can be found in the October 24, 2009, Montgomery Advertiser and at the Air Power History website.