Eugene J. Bullard (cat. 150). The only Black pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille [sic] during the Great War, and then manager of a Paris cabaret, he received his cross in 1959.
[From Véronique Wiesinger, 1853-1947, The Americans of the Legion of Honor. Blérancourt, 1993]

Eugene Bullard
[From Dennis Gordon,
The Lafayette Flying Corps, 2000]

submitted :September 9, 2006 by Alan Albright