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State Archives of North Carolina"},{"label":"Language","value":["English"]},{"label":"Creator","value":["Eagleson, Wilson Vashon, Jr., 1920-2006."]},{"label":"Contributor","value":["Johnson, W. Lee, Jr."]},{"label":"Date","value":"D:28 M:09 Y:2001"},{"label":"Subject","value":["Vietnam War, 1961-1975","Civilian Pilot Training Program (U.S.)","Distinguished Flying Cross (Medal)","Korean War, 1950-1953","Military history","Oral histories","Oral history","Personal narratives","Purple Heart","Retired military personnel","Tuskegee Airmen, Inc.","Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.)","United States. Army","United States. Army--African American troops","United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 332nd","United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 99th","Veterans","World War, 1939-1945"]},{"label":"Place","value":["Hunter Army Air Field, Chatham County, Georgia, United States","Japan","Naples, Campania, Italy","New York, United States","Southeast Asia","Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, United States","Fort Wolters, Parker County, Texas, United States","Fort Benning, Chattahoochee County, Georgia, United States"]},{"label":"Time Period","value":["(1954-1971) Civil Rights era","(1929-1945) Depression and World War Two","(1945-1989) Post War/Cold War period"]},{"label":"Description","value":"Wilson Vashon Eagleson Jr. was born on February 1, 1920, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Wilson Vashon and Frances Marshall Eagleson. As a child, he suffered with rheumatic fever and needed a moderate climate, so he and his sister had to live with his grandmother in Bloomington, Indiana, after his parents were offered jobs at North Carolina Central College (present-day North Carolina Central University), a public historically black college in Durham, N.C. His father was the first football, basketball, and baseball coach at the college, and his mother was a registrar at the same institution for about 48 years.  Wilson Eagleson moved to Durham in 1934, after his father died in a car accident. Following high school graduation, he attended college at West Virginia State College, where he became a member of the Civilian Pilot Training Program in 1938. He wanted to volunteer for the U.S. Air Corps, but at the time they did not accept African American recruits. Eagleson instead continued with his college studies, transferring to Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.  Upon the United States' entrance into World War II, Wilson Eagleson was inducted into the U.S. Army on January 19, 1942. He trained as an infantryman at Fort Wolters, Texas, then attended Officer Training School at Fort Benning, Georgia. In September 1942, Eagleson was accepted into flight school at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Tuskegee, Alabama. He completed his aviation training and received his commission on April 29, 1943.  Eagleson married Geraldine Eagleson on May 1, 1943, and left for overseas service in WWII in September 1943. Eagleson served in the 99th Pursuit Squadron, part of the 332nd Fighter Group, flying out of Naples, Italy. Eagleson's unit became known as \"Red-Tail Angels,\" because of the distinctive crimson unit identification marking predominantly applied on the tail section of the unit's aircraft. Eagleson's group served in Africa and Italy in WWII. He returned to the United States in March 1945. Following his service in WWII, Eagleson helped close the Tuskegee Army Air Field, and was released from active duty in 1946. After a few years, he returned to active duty in the U.S. Air Force, and would serve in the Korean War and the Vietnam War. During these two wars, Eagleson spent time stationed in Japan; Southeast Asia; Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia; and at an unidentified Air Force Base in New York.  Wilson Eagleson retired from the U.S. Air Force in February 1972. During his career, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, two Purple Hearts, three Presidential Unit Citations, the Red Star of Yugoslavia, the Korean Service Medal, and the Vietnam Service and Campaign Medals. He reached the rank of Lieutenant during his military service. After his retirement from the U.S. Air Force, Eagleson would work at Belk in Goldsboro, N.C. He was a member of the American Legion of Goldsboro; and a member of the Wilson V. Eagleson Chapter, Tuskegee Airmen Inc., with the chapter named after him. Wilson V. Eagleson II died on April 16, 2006, in Dudley, N.C., and was buried in Markham Memorial Gardens in Durham, N.C."},{"label":"Digital Characteristics","value":"4 pages"},{"label":"Format","value":["Summaries"]},{"label":"Rights","value":"All rights held by the State Archives of NC. Permission to publish must be obtained from the registrar in writing."},{"label":"Source Collections","value":["Military Veterans Oral History Collection. Military Collection. State Archives of North Carolina"]}],"description":"Wilson V. 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