BETHESDA – It has been several decades since retired Col. Charles McGee flew his last mission. However, the 99-year-old Tuskegee airman still talks about it as if it was yesterday.

“I fell in love with flying on my first flight; just to be able to loop, roll and spin and then come back and put my feet on the ground,” he said, while sitting in his Bethesda living room, decorated almost entirely with his medals, replicas of the planes he flew and his many awards and citations. 

McGee flew 409 combat missions during World War II, the Korean conflict and Vietnam. He served in leadership positions and was the first African American to command a stateside Air Force Wing and Base.


Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee holds a model of one of the planes he flew during in battle. Photo by Suzanne Pollak/The Montgomery Sentinel.
He retired after serving 30 years at the rank of colonel but that may soon change. The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill that authorized his......
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