Black and White AirmenBlack and White Airmen
Their True History
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Book, 2007
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Current format, Book, 2007, , All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsThis powerful story follows two men--both of whom went to the same school and fought in the same war, but who never met because one was white and one was black--as they meet fifty years after WWII and join forces to tell young people why race once made all the difference--and why it shouldn't matter anymore.
Follows two men who went to the same school and fought in the same war but never met because one was white and one was black, as they meet fifty years after World War II and join forces to tell why race shouldn't matter anymore.
Here is the true history of a friendship that almost wasn't.
John Leahr and Herb Heilbrun grew up in the same neighborhood and were in the same third grade class together. They were classmates'not friends'because Herb was white and John was black.
John and Herb were twenty-one when the United States entered WWII. Herb became an Army Air Forces B-17 bomber pilot. John flew P-51 fighters. Both were thrown into the brutal high-altitude bomber war against Nazi Germany, though they never met because the army was rigidly segregated'only in the air were black and white American fliers allowed to mix.
Both came safely home but it took Herb and John another fifty years to meet again and discover that their lives had run almost side by side through war and peace. Old friends at last, Herb and John launched a mission to tell young people why race once made all the difference and why it shouldn't anymore.
Follows two men who went to the same school and fought in the same war but never met because one was white and one was black, as they meet fifty years after World War II and join forces to tell why race shouldn't matter anymore.
Here is the true history of a friendship that almost wasn't.
John Leahr and Herb Heilbrun grew up in the same neighborhood and were in the same third grade class together. They were classmates'not friends'because Herb was white and John was black.
John and Herb were twenty-one when the United States entered WWII. Herb became an Army Air Forces B-17 bomber pilot. John flew P-51 fighters. Both were thrown into the brutal high-altitude bomber war against Nazi Germany, though they never met because the army was rigidly segregated'only in the air were black and white American fliers allowed to mix.
Both came safely home but it took Herb and John another fifty years to meet again and discover that their lives had run almost side by side through war and peace. Old friends at last, Herb and John launched a mission to tell young people why race once made all the difference and why it shouldn't anymore.
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