UPDATED: Tuskegee Airman Honored by Hometown High School
Second Lt. Alfred M. Gorham, Dr. Conrad Andringa and Olympian Gwen Jorgensen were inducted into the Waukesha South High School Wall of Fame on Friday.
Editor's Note: This article was updated at 9:15 p.m. Monday with more information about Dr. Conrad Andringa. Second Lt. Alfred M. Gorham, the only pilot from Wisconsin to fly with the Tuskegee Airmen, struggled to fit in. Gorham was a member of the group of black World War II pilots who were known for their skilled fighting during the war despite facing segregation and prejudice. “He faced a continued battle of segregation, mistrust and outright hate,” said David Isabell, a Waukesha resident who researched Gorham. “He was from Wisconsin, from Waukesha, a small, little dinky town. … The Northern blacks didn’t like him because he was a small, country bumpkin. The Southern blacks didn’t like him because he was a Northern black, and the whites…
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