East Coast Chapter Tuskegee Airmen Inc Commemorative Challenge Coin

This item is a metal cast, military style Challenge Coin. Can be used as an official or personal gift. The coin has many facts of the history of the famed Tuskegee Airmen (1941-1949) and the charter chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc. East Coast Chapter (1973). Read below for the highlights of the coin. Operational aircraft flown - P-40, P-47, P-51, B-25 ECCTAI LOGO - From the darkness of ignorance and oppression climbs the young American Eagle, rising swiftly into the bright sunrise of new opportunity and challenge. Guiding his rise are the illuminating stars for the supporting elements - women and men, military and civilian, essential groups and individuals. In his claws he carries the armament of education and the ability to fight for right - the scroll and the arrows. The young eagle looks to the side of the heart, flying to the defense of the highest principles of humanity. He embodies pride, potential and progress.