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African-American pilots over Auschwitz


By Rafael Medoff

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/africanamerican_pilots_over_auschwitz_20080118/

Last week, President Bush remarked that the United States should have bombed the Auschwitz death camp in 1944. Next week, Americans will commemorate the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. and the struggle for Civil Rights. What do these two occasions have in common? More than one might think.

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