James Bynum, one of the last of San Antonio’s Tuskegee Airmen, is dead at 101
James Bynum, right, with his wife Dorothy, prepares to autograph a model of a P-51 Mustang for Jacob Wooten, 7, and his father, Air Force Capt. David Wooten, at a tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph in 2015.Retired Air Force Senior Master Sgt. James Lee Bynum, one of two surviving Tuskegee Airmen in San Antonio who was known for telling its story to groups around town, has died in a local hospice.Bynum’s passing left Dr.
The group’s veterans were proud of its record — 15,533 sorties, 112 aerial kills, 96 Distinguished Flying Crosses and three Presidential Unit Citations. A few months after the war, Bynum left the Army to return to civilian life but quickly grew dissatisfied. He’d served in Gen. George S. Patton’s 3rd Army and recalled its segregated status when he was overseas. He also never forgot the treatment he received applying for a civilian job in Philadelphia, where he grew up the seventh of 10 siblings.
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