Rudolph “Val” Archer was one of the last remaining Tuskegee Airmen, the elite group of black pilots and support staff who served during World War II.Archer first tried to join the U.S.
Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps when he was 15, but he was told to come back when he was old enough to serve. At 18, he joined the U.S.
Army and was assigned to the Tuskegee Airmen, where he trained as an airplane mechanic and aircraft instrument specialist. Archer continued his military career in the U.S.
Air Force after World War II ended, serving in the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He became a crew chief and later served as an instructor for TITAN I Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Squadrons.
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