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Black and white photograph of Capt. Charles B. Hall, a former Eastern student (ex '42) who enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1941, joining the Tuskegee Airmen and becoming the first African-American pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft during World War II. (Of note, Hall was also Eastern's first African-American athlete, joining the football team in 1938.)

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