The NYC Urban Sketchers theme for this weekend was events and people to honor during Black History Month. This is a sketch of Capt. Lawrence Dickson, a New York pilot killed during WWII. He was one of 27 Tuskegee Airmen listed as missing in action during the war. Lawrence's remains were finally identified from a DNA sample in 1988, 74 years after he was killed in a crash in Europe.
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first Black military aviators in the U.S. Air Corps. They trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama and flew more than 15,000 individual sorties in Europe and North Africa during WW II. Their impressive performance earned them more than 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses, and helped encourage the eventual integration of the U.S. armed forces.
Thanks for the great sketch and bit of history. :-)
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked it. I figured I would do something/someone a bit different for this.
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