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Old 6th November 2006, 15:13
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Re: Luftwaffe Reaction re: African American Pilots?

There were some black Germans, in one sense at least. JG27's badge of a negro head on a map of Africa referred to Germany's experience as a colonial power, in South-West Africa, now Namibia I believe. Some of the matters arising appear in Thomas Pynchon's novel, V.
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