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Wednesday, February 13, 2013  Luther McIlwain, an aviator with the famed Tuskegee Airmen who broke military racial barriers during World War II, a retired New York City police officer, and a civil rights advocate in Massachusetts, has died. He was 91.

Thursday, October 04, 2012  One of the original Tuskegee Airmen who lived here in Columbia has died. Funeral services took place Thursday for James McClain.

Monday, February 27, 2012  WACH Fox celebrates Black History Month with a look at African American achievements across the Midlands. James McClain a Columbia resident, was just one of thousands of African-American men who took to the skies to change the course of inequality in the United States Air Force.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012  JROTC cadets learned about the Tuskegee Airmen away from the classroom.

Monday, July 25, 2011  The Tuskegee Airmen were honored in Walterboro Sunday as a section of Interstate 95 in Colleton County was named after them.