Eugene Jacques Bullard (October 9, 1895 â October 12, 1961), born Eugene James Bullard, was the first black American military pilot,[1][2] although Bullard flew for France not the United States. Bullard was one of the few black combat pilots during World War I, along with William Robinson Clarke, a Jamaican who flew for the Royal Flying Corps, Domenico Mondelli from Italy and Ahmet Ali Ãelikten of the Ottoman Empire. Also a boxer and a jazz musician, he was called “L’Hirondelle noire” in French, “Black Swallow”.
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