Col. Walter L. Watson, Jr., USAF (Retired) was the first and only African American to qualify as a crew member in the SR-71, a super-secret aircraft (Blackbird) that set altitude and speed records that still stand today. Watson was born in Columbia, South Carolina, he was the oldest of four children of Walter L. Watson, […]
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