Edgar Bolden

Edgar Bolden (born June 1, 1921(1921-06-01); died March 4, 2007 (aged 85) Portland, Oregon) was one of the Tuskegee Airmen.

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History • 332nd Fighter Group • Tuskegee Army Air Field • Freeman Field Mutiny
Aircraft • P-40 Warhawks • P-39 Airacobras • P-47 Thunderbolts • P-51 Mustangs
Leadership • Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
Airmen • Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler • Edgar Bolden • Roscoe C. Brown • Eugene Calvin Cheatham, Jr. • Alfonza W. Davis • Charles Dryden • Oliver Goodall • Percy Heath • Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. • Alexander Jefferson • Wilmeth Sidat-Singh • Chuck Stone • Roger Terry • Lucius Theus • George Watson • Henry Wise Jr.
Legacy • National Historic Site • Tuskegee Airmen, Inc
Media • Henry Browne, Farmer (1942 film) • Wings for This Man (1945 film) • The Tuskegee Airmen (1995 film) • Black Eagle (Wild Card character) • Red Tails (George Lucas film) • Silver Wings and Civil Rights: The Fight to Fly (2004 film)
Related topics • Golden Thirteen • Buffalo Soldier • U.S. Army Black Panthers • 366th Infantry Regiment • United States Colored Troops
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He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II. After the war he pursued a career in aerospace, working at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, and later at RCA in Princeton, New Jersey where he worked on communications satellite systems.