U.S. Marine Corps photo by courtesy of Peterson's autobiography, "Into The Tiger's Jaw."/Released 091203-M-0000A-002.jpg
Dec 3, 2009
Retired Lt. Gen. Frank E. Peterson (right), accepts congratulations Oct. 22, 1952, from Lt. Col. William Gentry Johnson, commander, Marine Night Fighter Squadron 542, at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., after receiving his commission as a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps and designation as the first African-American Marine aviator. Peterson would also later become the Corps' first African-American brigadier general in 1979.
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