Homer Hogues, a native Texan who was one of the last living Tuskegee Airmen, died Tuesday in Dallas. He was 96.
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American pilots in the U.S. armed forces. They flew in the 99th Pursuit Squadron and 332nd Fighter Group during World War II.
Hogues, who was born in Navasota, worked for a sharecropper in Ovilla before being drafted in 1946.
Hogues died two days after his wife of 76 years, Mattie Hogues.