Walter P. Manning: A Tuskegee Airman Lynched in Austria, 1945
In the final weeks of World War II, as Allied forces closed in on Nazi Germany, a young African American pilot named Walter Peyton Manning was shot down over Austria. He had flown 50 missions with the famed Tuskegee Airmen, earning six Air Medals for heroism. But on April 1, 1945, Manning’s story took a brutal turn—not in combat, but in captivity. A Fighter for Justice in the Skies Born in…











