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UW sculptor to do life-size bronze statue to living Tuskegee Airman

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There’s an effort in Duluth and Superior to erect a monument to a living Tuskegee airman.Joe Gomer was a member of that group of black pilots who broke racial barriers flying missions over Europe in World War II. Mike Simonson reports from Superior.

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