Ex-Tuskegee Airman Alfred Thomas Farrar dies at age 99

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LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Alfred Thomas Farrar, a former Tuskegee Airman, died on Thursday in Virginia only days before a ceremony planned to honor his service in the program that famously trained Black military pilots during World War II. He was 99.

Farrar's son, Roy, told The Associated Press on Sunday that his father died at his Lynchburg home. Alfred Farrar would have turned 100 years old on Dec. 26.

Farrar left his Lynchburg hometown for Tuskegee, Alabama, after graduating from high school to began his aviation training in 1941.

“It was the next best thing to do,” Farrar had told The News & Advance in a story that ran last week.

Farrar learned to be a pilot during his time in U.S. Army Air Corps program but didn't fly any combat missions overseas, according to his son.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ex-tuskegee-airman-alfred-thomas-farrar-dies-at-age-99/ar-BB1c5xz8?li=BBnbcA1

[democrank]

1. Rest in peace, Alfred Thomas Farrar.

I honor your service

[appalachiablue]

2. Thanks, rest in peace Mr. Farrar of Virginia.

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. RIP