Wendell O. Pruitt
Military Person
1920 – 1945
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Who was Wendell O. Pruitt?
Wendell Oliver Pruitt was a pioneering African-American military pilot and Tuskegee Airman originally from St. Louis, Missouri. He was killed during a training exercise in 1945. After his death, his name, along with William L. Igoe's was given to the notorious Pruitt–Igoe public housing complex in St. Louis.
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- Born
- Jun 20, 1920
St. Louis - Also known as
- Wendell Pruitt
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Lincoln University
- Sumner High School
- Died
- Apr 15, 1945
Tuskegee
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on July 23, 2013
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