One of the first African-American military aviators, who served with the Tuskegee Airmen, in World War II died Saturday from apparent natural causes in his New York City apartment. Wilfred DeFour was discovered unconscious and unresponsive inside his Harlem apartment at approximately 9:00 a.m., police said. Officials say his cause of death appeared to be natural causes but they will perform an official autopsy report. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in the U.S. Armed Forces, which were racially segregated until after the war. DeFour, who worked as a Post Office employee from more than 30 years following his military service, was honored just last month at a ceremony to rename a Manhattan post office after the Tuskegee Airmen.

Source: Fox News December 09, 2018 02:12 UTC