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Alix Pasquet
Tuskagee Airman (1919–1958)
Alix Pasquet (November 14, 1919 – July 29, 1958) was a World War IIfighter pilot, one of only five Haitian members of the Tuskegee Airmen, a soccer star, and a political revolutionary.[1][2][3] He was killed while leading a coup attempt against Haitian President François Duvalier in 1958.
Fighter pilot
In 1942, Haitian President Élie Lescot implemented an aviation corps program[1] and chose 3 men out of 42 corps members to receive pilot training in Tuskegee, Alabama.[1] Alix Pasquet, a law graduate of École Millitaire d'Haiti and an officer in the Haitian army at the time, was one of these three chosen officers.[4]
The U.S.
government needed the Haitians to organize a patrol of the Caribbean Sea during World War II and gave the Haitian government six airplanes. These airplanes could carry bombs and could be used to attack German submarines within that area.
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