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Wayne Lusardi, Michigan's state maritime archaeologist with the Department of Natural Resources helps guide the 1,200-pound mussel-encrusted engine from a P-39 World War II-era fighter plane flown by a member of the famed Tuskegee airmen into a chemical solution, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023 at the Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum in Detroit.

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Wreckage from Tuskegee airman's plane that crashed during WWII training recovered from Lake Huron

The Associated Press

Wreckage of a WWII P-39 flown by a member of the Tuskegee Airmen was found and pulled up this week. The plane went down during training 80 years ago near Port Huron.

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Stateside: DIA proposes new millage; dysfunction on university boards; Whitmer’s promises to vets

Today on Stateside, a veteran advocate says that Michigan veterans are not getting connected to the benefits they’ve earned. Plus, we talk to one of the…

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Tuskegee Airman discusses service and discrimination in new book

This segment originally aired on June 24, 2019. There are just 11 surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, a legendary all-black military unit that flew…

Environment & Climate Change

Tuskegee Airman's plane crashed into Lake Huron. Found 70 years later to the day.

Stateside Staff

Nobody ever thought they would find it: the P-39 fighter plane that Tuskegee Airman Frank Herman Moody, originally of Oklahoma, was flying over Lake Huron…

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Tuskegee Airmen: 'Rock Stars' Of American History

Karen Grigsby Bates

The number of living World War II veterans shrinks every week, and every time it does, another part of American history fades away. Last month, a distinguished group of black veterans — the nation's first black fighter pilots — reunited to drink a little, laugh a lot and swap war stories.