Frank E. Petersen Jr., the first black aviator and brigadier general in Marine Corps, has died.
Frank E. Petersen III said his father died Tuesday at his home in Stevensville, on Maryland’s Kent Island, of complications from lung cancer. He was 83.
The New York Times reported that Petersen enlisted in the Navy in 1950, two years after President Truman desegregated the armed forces.
The next year, Petersen entered the Naval Aviation Cadet Program, according to The Washington Post.
Let us be in prayer for the family of this American Hero! Amen!
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