Feb 7, 2012 5:37 PM
Lee Hayes holding a model of a B-25 plane the kind he flew in WW II. KYRIL BROMLEY
Lee Hayes of Amagansett, a pilot with the famed Tuskegee Airmen—the country’s first African-American aviators, who served in a segregated unit with the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II—will be honored as part of the Suffolk County Historical Society’s Black History Month commemoration on Wednesday,
February 15.
The honor comes after Mr. Hayes and Roscoe Brown of Sag Harbor served as grand marshals of last year’s Southampton Village Fourth of July parade, and at a time when the exploits of the Tuskegee Airmen are the subject of a popular film, “Red Tails,” which is being shown at theaters across the country.
Mr. Hayes, 89, who remains active, going to the East Hampton Senior Citizen Center every day for lunch and keeping up with the doings of American Legion Post 419... more
The honor comes after Mr. Hayes and Roscoe Brown of Sag Harbor served as grand marshals of last year’s Southampton Village Fourth of July parade, and at a time when the exploits of the Tuskegee Airmen are the subject of a popular film, “Red Tails,” which is being shown at theaters across the country.
Mr. Hayes, 89, who remains active, going to the East Hampton Senior Citizen Center every day for lunch and keeping up with the doings of American Legion Post 419... more
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