Tuskegee Airman LTC William Holloman III passed away on Friday, June 11th. He participated in the Memorial Day Weekend B-17 flights at Boeing Field adjacent to the Museum of Flight. Museum staff also participated.
LTC William Holloman III passed away on Friday, June 11th. He was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military aviators in the United States armed forces. He was 86, and a Kent resident originally from St. Louis.
LTC Holloman participated in the hosting of the B-17 flights Memorial Day weekend at Boeing Field with members of the Museum of Flight there, and spoke to the West Seattle Herald in its article documenting the B-17 Aluminum Outcast's visit to Seattle here
A memorial celebrating his life in the skies is currently being planned for later this summer to take place at the Museum of Flight and we will update our readers.
