With the release of the movie "Red Tails," I want to note in this forum (as I have on Facebook) that George M. Hubbard, a black Delaware Indian born in 1920 in Nowata and a Langston University graduate, was a Tuskegee Airman who rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force, with service in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. He was my second cousin once removed. He was not exactly a Cherokee Freedman descendant because his mother was an adopted Cherokee with one-eighth Delaware blood. His mother and grandmother are on the Dawes rolls. His great-grandfather, our common ancestor, was rejected for Freedman status before the Dawes rolls--for dubious reasons--and was of African and other mixed heritage. George M. Hubbard died in 1997 in California and is buried in Riverside National Cemetery there. Marilyn Vann of the Freedmen Descendants Association tells me she had not known any descendant of a Cherokee citizen was a Tuskegee Airman before my FB post. Hubbard was a graduate of historically-black Langston University in Oklahoma.