James Clayton Flowers

James Clayton Flowers was born on December 25, 1915^[1] in Las Cruces, New Mexico.^[2]

He was a pilot with the 99th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group for five years.^[4]

After the war, he and his wife Evelyn started a family. Flowers worked as a school teacher in the New York School System. After retirement he and his wife relocated to New Mexico.^[1] They had two children.^[5] New Mexico held a ceremony to honor the Tuskegee Airmen in March 2014. Flowers was present for the dedication at the New Mexico Veterans' Memorial.^[6] He turned 100 on December 25, 2015.^[7]

• Congressional Gold Medal awarded to the Tuskegee Airmen in 2006^[8]

• Executive Order 9981
• List of Tuskegee Airmen
• Military history of African Americans
• The Tuskegee Airmen (movie)

• The Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History, 1939-1949^[9]
• "Born to Fly the Skies." Weirton Daily Times (Weirton, W.Va.) 23 February 2013. Web. 17 January 2014.
• "Tuskegee Airmen Pilot Listing." Tuskegee University, 2014, Web. 17 January 2014.

Notes

• Tuskegee Airmen at Tuskegee University
• Tuskegee Airmen Archives at the University of California, Riverside Libraries.
• Tuskegee Airmen, Inc.
• Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
• Tuskegee Airmen National Museum
• Fly (2009 play about the 332d Fighter Group)
• James Clayton Flowers Interview