MAURY REID, TUSKEGEE AIRMAN DIES RIP

Reid, one of the Tuskegee Airmen, dies in St. Petersburg at 81

The Associated Press
Posted July 9 2006, 6:39 PM EDT


SARASOTA -- Maury Reid, one of the Tuskegee Airmen who were the nation's first black military pilots, has died. He was 81.

Reid died July 4 at Bay Pines Medical Center in St. Petersburg after a long illness, his son said Sunday.


He was born in Harlem, N.Y., and graduated with the 44G class at the Air Force program for black pilots in Tuskegee, Ala.

``He signed up before he finished high school,'' said Yenwith Whitney, who trained with Reid at Tuskegee.

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