On this day in 1917, Eugene Jacques Bullard became the first Black American combat pilot, fighting for the French Aéronautique Militaire.
On this day in 1917 by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today May 5, 2024 May 5, 1917 Eugene Jacques Bullard, seen here in uniform in World War I, was the first African-American combat pilot. Eugene Jacques Bullard became the first Black American combat pilot. After the near lynching of his father and hearing that Great Britain lacked such racism, the 12-year-old Georgia native stowed away on a ship headed for Scotland.
After the war he bought a Paris nightclub, where Josephine Baker and Louis Armstrong performed and eventually helped French officials ferret out Nazi sympathizers. After World War II ended, he moved to Harlem, but his widespread fame never followed him back to the U.S. In 1960, when French President Charles de Gaulle visited, he told government officials that he wanted to see his old friend, Bullard.
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