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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Augustus Sharps, Jr., of the Sabre Ranch in Arizona, makes his way to Tuskegee, Alabama, where for the first time in history, black men are being trained as combat pilots to fight the war in Europe and the Pacific.
Black Sabre Chronicles #3
Forge
August 2000
Featuring: Augustus Sharps, Jr.
352 pages ISBN: 0812564774 Paperback (reprint)
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Historical
Augustus's family has been fighting America's wars since
his grandfather rode with Buffalo Soldiers against the
Apaches, and since his father fought in Cuba 1898 and in
the trenches of the Western Front in World War I, and he is
determined to follow their footsteps. Wings of Honor is the poignant and exciting story of a
young man battling the odds to fly with the "Red-Tail
Angels," the 99th U.S. Pursuit Squadron, and how he added
to his family's honor in battles over North Africa, Sicily,
and France, in the fury of the Second World War. "Willard artfully blends the details of an absorbing
individual story with a vivid panorama of gut-wrenching
combat scenes. Another admirable, action-packed addition to
a compelling, multigenerational series that catalogs the
incredibly heroic, and often overlooked, contributions of
black soldiers to the history of the American military."-
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