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  • Member of historic Black aviation unit was 100
  • Lumpkin attended Obama inauguration in 2009

Theodore Lumpkin Jr, one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen of the second world war, has died from complications of the coronavirus, days before his 101st birthday.

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