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    Valor Italy’s African Eagle

    Oct 27, 2020 2 minutes
    By Jon Guttman

    Domenico Mondelli Italian Armed Forces

    Silver Medal for Military Valor

    World War I

    During World War I at least five black airmen overcame both the technological challenges of early aviation and the prejudice of peers to enter various wartime air arms. On Nov. 11, 1916, Ottoman navy 1st Lt. Ahmet Ali Celikten, the grandson of a Nigerian Yoruba slave, qualified to fly

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