{"id":44082,"date":"2015-11-21T02:43:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T02:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44082"},"modified":"2016-04-01T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T15:58:59","slug":"once-unknown-story-of-wwii-latino-tuskegee-airman-uncovered%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44082","title":{"rendered":"Once unknown, story of WWII Latino Tuskegee Airman uncovered\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/lifestyle\/2015\/11\/20\/once-unknown-hidden-past-latino-tuskegee-airmen-discovered\/\" target=\"_blank\">Once unknown, story of WWII Latino Tuskegee Airman uncovered<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News Latino<\/a><br \/>\n2015-11-20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bryanllenas\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bryan Llenas<\/strong><\/a>, National Correspondent<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/lifestyle\/2015\/11\/20\/once-unknown-hidden-past-latino-tuskegee-airmen-discovered\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/global.fncstatic.com\/static\/managed\/img\/fn-latino\/lifestyle\/Tuskeegee%20Airmen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among the legendary <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tuskegee_Airmen\" target=\"_blank\">Tuskegee Airmen<\/a>, America&#8217;s first African-American military air squadron which heroically fought in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\">World War II<\/a>, was a little known about Hispanic pilot named Esteban Hotesse.<\/p>\n<p>Born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moca,_Espaillat\" target=\"_blank\">Moca, Dominican Republic<\/a>, but a New Yorker since he was 4 years old, Hotesse served with the Tuskegee Airmen for more than three years before he died during a military exercise on July 8th, 1945. He was just 26.<\/p>\n<p>As a black Dominican, Hotesse was a part of a squadron credited for single-handedly tearing down the military&#8217;s segregation policies, while helping to change America&#8217;s perception of African-Americans during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Crow<\/a> era.<\/p>\n<p>Enlisted on February 21, 1942 Hotesse was part of the 619 squadron of the 447 bombardment group known as the Tuskegee Airmen. Though his squadron never flew in combat, he took part in the battle for civil rights at home&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/lifestyle\/2015\/11\/20\/once-unknown-hidden-past-latino-tuskegee-airmen-discovered\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once unknown, story of WWII Latino Tuskegee Airman uncovered Fox News Latino 2015-11-20 Bryan Llenas, National Correspondent Among the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, America&#8217;s first African-American military air squadron which heroically fought in World War II, was a little known about Hispanic pilot named Esteban Hotesse. Born in Moca, Dominican Republic, but a New Yorker since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,14646,8,20],"tags":[21956,21955,16322,21957,969],"class_list":["post-44082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-bryan-llenas","tag-esteban-hotesse","tag-fox-news-latino","tag-tuskegee-airmen","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44083,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44082\/revisions\/44083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}