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Radio France Internationale
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Jessica Phelan

Eugene Bullard, pioneering African-American aviator who flew for France in WWI

Eugene Bullard, the first African-American military pilot, in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion. © United States Air Force / Public domain

The first African-American combat pilot flew not for his country, but for France. Born in the segregated south of the United States at the turn of the 20th century, Eugene Bullard moved to Paris and became one of a handful of black pilots to fight in World War I.

The way Eugene Bullard told it, he was always destined to come to France.

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