{"id":395092,"date":"2022-01-17T07:31:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T04:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tuskegee-airman-charles-mcgee-dies-at-102\/"},"modified":"2022-01-17T07:31:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T04:31:04","slug":"tuskegee-airman-charles-mcgee-dies-at-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tuskegee-airman-charles-mcgee-dies-at-102\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee dies at 102"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee dies at 102<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Charles McGee, a decorated military pilot with the pioneering all-black Tuskegee Airman who flew combat missions in three wars, died Sunday. He was 102.<\/p>\n<p>McGee died peacefully in his sleep, his family said in a statement obtained by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had his right hand over his heart and was smiling serenely,\u201d his youngest daughter Yvonne McGee said in a statement released by the spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>McGee flew 409 fighter combat missions during World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars.<\/p>\n<p>His illustrious career began with the Army Air Corps in 1942, when at the age of 23 he became one of the first black military aviators known as the Tuskegee Airmen.<\/p>\n<p>He was among only a few pilots to fly missions in all three wars.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"772\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/AFP_9WB9Q9.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"In this file photo taken on February 4, 2020 retired Brigadier General Charles McGee (bottom C) gestures up during the State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. \" class=\"wp-image-20857448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/AFP_9WB9Q9.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/AFP_9WB9Q9.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/AFP_9WB9Q9.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/AFP_9WB9Q9.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>McGee, a decorated military pilot, flew 409 fighter combat missions during World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou could say that one of the things we were fighting for was equality. Equality of opportunity. We knew we had the same skills, or better,\u2033 he told The Associated Press in a 1995 interview.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin reacted to McGee\u2019s death on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, calling him an American hero.<\/p>\n<p>After turning 100, McGee was promoted to the one-star rank of brigadier <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> under a congressional measure signed by then-President Donald Trump<\/p>\n<p>McGee is survived by his three children, 10 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p><em>With Post wires <\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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He was 102. McGee died peacefully in his sleep, his family said in a statement obtained by Reuters. \u201cHe had his right hand over his heart and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":395093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Charles-McGee.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[124133,71173,70736,73363,71589],"class_list":["post-395092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-16-22","tag-army","tag-deaths","tag-pilots","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}