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A anew renamed bus annex on 100th St. and Lexington Ave. accustomed Tuskegee Airmen and their families for a ardent commemoration that paid accolade to their assignment in planes, trains and automobiles.
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The busy African American aggressive pilots and servicemen were accustomed with a brownish applique installed in the depot’s aperture with the names of 12 airmen who were active by the Metropolitan Alteration Ascendancy over the years.
The bus annex exoteric now boasts “Tuskegee Airmen Bus Depot” in agleam dejected lettering.
“I am awfully blessed and appreciative to be actuality with you today,” said Reginald Brewster, one of the two actual alteration workers at the commemoration aftermost Friday who fought Nazis during World War II.
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Now 94, Brewster was a affiliate of the acclaimed 332nd Fighter Group, or “Red Tails,” as they became known, for anguish adversary targets.
He afterwards became a agent for the burghal alteration system.
When he came aback to the United States afterwards the war, he said, he encountered added allegory and racism.
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“I am active affidavit to the actuality that the blush of your bark does not actuate your brainy accommodation or your character,” he told a arranged army of about 200 ancestors members, alteration admiral and association leaders, who gave Brewster assorted continuing ovations.
“We’re actuality as New Yorkers to angle calm proudly to account the Tuskegee Airmen who anesthetized through the MTA’s doors,” said MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota. “Their history is an enduring allotment of the MTA.”
Roscoe Brown, a pilot who attempt bottomward German jets during the war, was additionally in appearance with his daughter, Doris Bodine.
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Brown, who aloof acclaimed his 90th birthday, is a above admiral of Bronx Association College.
“You can’t accept how anxiously absolute this burghal was in 1946,” said Brown. “But the alteration ascendancy opened the doors, and accustomed that this is a backlog of talent.”
clestch@nydailynews.com
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