Eugene Bullard (9 October, 1894 - 12 October, 1961) was the first African-American military pilot. He was born Eugene Jacques Bullard in Columbus, Georgia, in the United States. His father was known as "Big Chief Ox" and his mother was a Creek Indian; together, they had ten children. Bullard stowed away on a ship bound for Scotland to escape racial discrimination (he later claimed to have had witnessed his father's narrow escape from lynching as a child). Wikipedia
For his bravery as an infantryman in combat, Bullard received the Croix de Guerre and other decorations. www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=705
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Born in a three-room house in Columbus , Eugene James (Jacques) Bullard was the seventh child of Josephine Thomas and William O. Bullard. www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-741