Eugene Bullard
Eugene Jacques Bullard , born Eugene James Bullard, was the first AfricanAmerican military pilot. His life has been surrounded by many legends. However, Bullard was unquestionably one of the few black combat pilots of the French Armed Forces during World War I along with Ahmet Ali elikten.
Bullard was born in Columbus, Georgia, the seventh of ten children born to William Bullard, a black man who was from Martinique, and Josephine Thomas, a Creek Indian. His fathers ancestors had been slaves in Haiti to French refugees who fled during the Haitian Revolution. They reached the United States and took refuge with the Creek Indians.
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