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justnotthatinteresting
He’s got bad muthafucka written all over his face
ShadyBuddha
That's a Croix de Guerre dangling from his uniform. So, at least the French recognized his valor
SilentShift
He left the US to fly for France long before the US entered the war, and they recognised his deeds immediately. Even built a statue iirc.
Starfox5
The first black fighter pilot according to Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Ali_%C3%87elikten
lovemysterytheysaid
Harry Kim's jealous AF
Joad111
About time.
JustAnAverageDankMemer
Speedmetal05
BIG SPOILER: He dies.
JustAnAverageDankMemer
Aww well shit
HogBabe
Damn he good lookin
CmdrAdama
Ok, so someone do a Will Clarke post too?
deadsmurfsryumy
The son of a Georgia slave. Went to France and fought in Foreign Legion then joined the French Air Force. 1/2
deadsmurfsryumy
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/eugene-j-bullard
imJoDell
Official photo the screams I'm officially over it
johncooper8t67
Handsome
TheMellowPeril
Didn’t know Wesley Snipes was a time-traveller
riddley2
He doesn’t look like Wesley Snipes.
lenomdeplume
He resembles a raptor.
Crowbarmaster
Cant see his tail.
lenomdeplume
A raptor is a hawk/eagle, and not unlike a fighter pilot, is an apex predator.
JennyIronTeeth
They see me flying. . .
Gnarizard
We strafin'
Chuckinsky
Patrolling and tryin' to catch em with my .30s
VagrantDust
Man, he even just *looks* badass.
WileECoyote69
Wesley Snipes is a bad sumbitch
Bountiful2016
Theres a movie called Flyboys thats has a representation of him. Ita based off American pilots who flew during WW1. but i cod be wrong ?
royrogersdoublerbarburger
You're not wrong.
SamuthNBS
This is what happens when you have a country where black people were only ever slaves compared to somewhere where they were people too.
JustAnAverageDankMemer
You aren't wrong, weird that you are getting# downvoted. France abolished slavery far before The USA, which is why many find it unfit (1/2)
SamuthNBS
And also black people were fairly widespread in Europe as traders, as citizens as people. In the US they were only slaves
JustAnAverageDankMemer
(2/2) for blacks to become Pilots.
JustAnAverageDankMemer
found*
TobiFuenke
Imagine how good he had to be to come into that position.
waiwode
He was a decorated soldier for the French Army. He volunteered for the French air service. When the Americans entered the war he was not 1/2
waiwode
2/2 ..allowed to join as a pilot, because he was black. He ended the war still in French service.
Shaows
Did his family get all that back-pay he was now owed?
TheSublimeGoose
Unlikely. They probably just made his date of rank backdated to his date of separation, or the promotion was honorary.
FreshNews247
I like to think so.
LTCmdrTomDodge
But realistically, probably not...
waiwode
Yeah, absolutely not. And not a lot of pay to collect from a posthumous promotion.
eotty
The pay is not interesting the interest is
nihillss
WW1 pilot pay? I know soldiers got paid something like $30 per month...
JumpinJoe
Probably less then that. WW2 soldier's got paid 25 dollars a month
SkunkSquirrel2nd
Correction, the only AMERICAN black pilot in WW1. William Clarke flew for Britain
Rookie8286
Correct, there were a few other black pilots. Eugene was American but flew for France.
melmboundanddown
Wow Americans trying to take credit for this brave pilot but he wasn't allowed to drink from a water fountain back home and flew for France.
SilentShift
He was also recognised for his deeds almost immediately in France, I believe there's even a statue of him somewhere though might be mistaken
mormacil
Given how US soldiers handled black soldiers while stationed in the UK during WW2 I'm not surprised
trolololono
Iirc he joined the Lafayette Escadrille, and even joined the war before the US did.
TheAngryMarineBiologist
It still astounds me that America had to put out instructional movies for the troops saying 'Don't be surprised when the Brits don't 1/?
TheAngryMarineBiologist
Hate and dehumanize black soldiers as much as you do', or the number of battles fought because of racist American soldiers attacking 2/?
TheAngryMarineBiologist
The Brits or Aussies or French for treating non-white soldiers half decently. 3/3
evasiveinaction
There was a racially aggravated shootout between American soldiers in my little English village during WW2. Killed an innocent bystander.
TheAngryMarineBiologist
Bamber Bridge? Or a less well known incident?