Tom Prior talks about his interest in co-writing and starring in “Firebird,” the disruptions the film faced during its festival rounds (especially in Russian film festivals), and what he hopes viewers will get after watching the film.
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US Marine Capt. Anneliese Satz made history when she completed the F-35B basic flight training course. She is the first female Marine to pilot an F-35B aircraft, according to the Marine Corp. Satz trained all over the country for the last four years before accomplishing her goal and finishing the course on June 27. “At […]
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Lieutenant Colonel Robert Friend, the 12th surviving Tuskegee Airmen has died. He passed away surrounded by family, due to Sepsis at 99 years old. However, his ties go beyond World War II. In fact, he was honored at the Date Festival here in the Coachella Valley back in 2017 and frequented the Palm Springs Air […]
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World War II pilot Robert Friend, one of the last original members of the famed all-black Tuskegee Airmen, has died at the age of 99. Friend’s daughter, Karen Friend Crumlich, told The Desert Sun her father died Friday at a Southern California hospital. Born in South Carolina on 1920’s leap day, Friend flew 142 combat […]
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The rules were clear when she was growing up: Women were not allowed to fly U.S. military aircraft. But that was not going to stop Rosemary Bryant Mariner. The daughter of a Navy nurse and an Air Force pilot who had died in a plane crash when she was 3, Mariner made it her goal […]
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World War II fighter pilot John Lyle, a Tuskegee Airman, has died at the age of 98. Lyle died Saturday at his home on Chicago’s South Side, his wife, Eunice, said Monday. She added that Lyle had been battling prostate cancer. The members of the nation’s first black fighter squadron won acclaim for their aerial […]
