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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1214787, member: 66&quot;]Actually the unit was awarded a gold medal by Congress.&nbsp; Typically when Congress awards a gold medal to a group each person receives one.&nbsp; In the case of the Tuskegee Airmen there were still enough alive to make it fiscally infeasible.&nbsp; So they awarded the gold medal to the group as a whole and each surviving member was given a bronze copy.&nbsp; As with other Congressional gold medals bronze copies were sold to the public to defray the expenses.&nbsp; I do not know if the medals given to the airmen had anything to distinguish them from the ones sold to the public.&nbsp; (since they couldn&#039;t be actual gold medals you would think the least they could do would be to goldplate the ones given to the airmen[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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