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Today, the Tuskegee Airmen are celebrated as American heroes, Black men who fought in World War II for a country that was still brutally segregated.

Eventually, these men who shattered the color line as combat pilots would be awarded some of the nation's highest honors.

In 2007, the Tuskegee Airmen were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by President George W. Bush.

But some never got to see those tributes because they never made it home.

And their families felt they were forgotten by the U.S.

government.

NPR investigative correspondent Cheryl W. Thompson is the author of a book that published earlier this year.