Pruitt, Wendell O., 1920-1945
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found: All-American news. [1945-04, no. 4], 1945name spoken (Capt. Wendell O. Pruitt)
found: Wikipedia WWW site, viewed October 4, 2018Wendell O. Pruitt (Wendell Oliver Pruitt; born, June 20, 1920 in St. Louis, Missouri; died, April 15, 1945, in Tuskegee, Alabama; pioneering African-American military pilot and Tuskegee Airman; received Distinguished Flying Cross in Italy, in June 1944; flew seventy combat missions, was credited with three enemy kills, and reached the rank of captain)
found: Tuskegee Airmen WWW site, viewed October 4, 2018Tuskegee Airmen History, Tuskegee Airmen Chronology, p. 125 (15 April 1945: Captain Wendell O. Pruitt, who after distinguished combat service overseas had returned to Tuskegee Army Air Field to be a flight instructor for advanced single-engine training, was killed in an aircraft crash)
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