2 Tuskegee Airmen, both 91, die

From the Associated Press

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2 Tuskegee Airmen, both 91, die on same day in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Clarence E. Huntley Jr. and Joseph Shambrey grew up running track together in the same Los Angeles neighborhood in the 1930s.

When World War II broke out, they enlisted in the Army and jumped at the chance to join the all-black group of soldiers known as the Tuskegee Airmen.

After the war, they came back home together, married their respective sweethearts and rarely let a month pass without getting together or talking by phone.

So it was ironic but perhaps not all that surprising when both died on Jan. 5 at 91.

[EDITORIAL COMMENT:- The survivors of another "social experiment" are getting fewer and fewer.]