P-51B Tuskegee Airmen, Lt. Colonel Leo R. Gray
Gray enlisted after high school and began training in 1942 at Tuskegee Army Airfield. He became an active-duty pilot the following year.
He was then stationed in Italy, where he flew 15 combat missions as a pilot with the 100th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group, which protected Allied bombers. He flew the P-51 Mustang, logging 750 flight hours.