Last surviving Buffalo Soldier from SC dies at 92

[captain queeg]

6. Well obviously didn't serve in WWII

There are fewer and fewer survivors of that war alive. I had an uncle in the army air corps just died a few years ago. He was in his 90s. But he was already in the service at the time of Pearl Harbor. I think he said he was 24 at that time, so compared to many that joined up he was an oldster. He didn’t really see combat per se. spent most of the war on B-24s flying from Brazil to Africa and some time flying over the hump, which I guess would be the Burma area. He was hospitalized a couple times and was in a hospital that was bombed by the Japanese. But his lucky break came early on. He was assigned to the 8th Air Force on his way to England and got sick in Iceland and spent a couple weeks in the hospital and ended up reassigned. Lucky break for him. Being in the 8th at that time was about as bad as being in a U-boat.