Wilfred DeFour, one of the Tuskegee Airmen who has served during the World War II was reportedly found dead in Big Apple on Saturday. DeFour was 100 years old.
The New York Police Department has told that the officers have recently responded to a call place to 911 from a residence located in Harlem where they found a man who has been identified as DeFour who was allegedly unresponsive and unconscious.
The police even said that there was no sign of trauma and a medical examiner is going to determine Wilfred DeFour’s cause of death. DeFour has attended a renaming ceremony.
WABC an affiliate of CNN has reported that DeFour attended the ceremony which surrounded the renaming of a post office in Harlem by honoring the Airmen of Tuskegee.
In the service corps of the US, the Tuskegee Airmen were reportedly the first generation of military aviators who were African-American. The Airmen of Tuskegee were trained at Tuskegee Army Airfield in Alabama’s Macon County.
According to the CNN’s WABC DeFour said that he regrets the fact that there are so many comrades who are no longer with the war veterans. DeFour has noted that this also there is a recognition for the Airmen for Tuskegee which is extremely important as well.
The group of Tuskegee Airmen were generally asked for including navigators, pilots, bombardiers along with maintenance and support staff who went through the training program of US Army Air Corps was brought in as the effort of African-American to the war, as reported by the devoted group of airmen whose names have been engraved in history- The Tuskegee Airmen Inc.
During the World War II, Wilfred DeFour was a technician of the aircraft according to the research and reports of WABC. After the Second World War concluded, Wilfred DeFour reportedly worked for the Postal Service of the US for a term of 33 years.
Source: cnn
