Family asks for cards, emails to celebrate WWII Tuskegee Airman's 100th birthday

WASHINGTON (WJLA/TND) — A World War II Tuskegee Airman celebrated a big milestone Monday as he turned 100 years old. His family is hoping you might help mark his centenary birthday with a bit of fanfare.

Lt. John Curry and his wife are longtime residents in the nation's capital — from 1949 to the present day, WJLA reports.

You can help this veteran, a Tuskegee Airman and recent centenarian, celebrate his big day. Curry's loved ones, including his two sons, are asking you to help make Curry's special birthday extra-special by sending a card or an email.

Curry's address is listed as4305 21st Street NE,Washington, D.C. 20018.His wife's email address is listed as: msgloriaaka@aol.com.

For background, on March 7, 1942, the first class of cadets graduated from Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama. They became the nation's first African American military pilots, now known as the Tuskegee Airmen, PBS reports.

“Anyone – man or woman, military or civilian, black or white — who served at Tuskegee Army Air Field or in any of the programs stemming from the ‘Tuskegee Experience’ between the years 1941-1949 is considered to be a documented Original Tuskegee Airman,” a historical site for the Tuskegee Airmen said.