Retired postal employee recalls training Tuskegee Airmen

When former postal employee Roscoe Draper entered Civilian Pilot Training Program at Hampton University in Hampton, VA, he didn’t intend to become part of an important chapter of World War II history. Draper, an African-American, received his pilot certification in 1940 and attempted to enter the U.S. Army Air Corps. But America was segregated. “My […]