Memorial services are being planned in New Jersey and Texas for one of the original Tuskeegee airmen. Calvin Spann died Sunday at his home near Dallas at the age of 90. Spann grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey. He volunteered for the Army Air Corps and flew 26 combat missions over Nazi Germany in the first squadron of African-American pilots in U.S. military history. He was inducted into the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame in 2006. Later that year, Spann and the other Tuskegee Airmen received a Congressional Gold Medal for their wartime service.
(source-MetroNews/Sara Lee Kessler)
