From Italy's standpoint, it was true, Italy had been fairly royally chiseled out of any substantive World War spoils. At this very moment, Col. Hubert Julian, the Black Eagle of Harlem, was in Addis Ababa, and it would have been his most glorious hour if he'd only had an airplane. Trinidad-born Hubert Fauntleroy Julian had been one of Harlem's most flamboyant figures for years. When the war ended several months later, Hubert Julian was in Naples, calling himself Col. Huberto Juliano and promising several great trailblazing flights, none of which was ever made. Back in Harlem in 1940, the Black Eagle publicly challenged Nazi Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering to a one-on-one Messerschmitt duel over the English Channel.

Source: Ethiopian News August 14, 2017 10:14 UTC