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Ohio's Tuskegee Airmen's names to be added to memorial

If you're looking for someone to brag about their war exploits, Philip Gizzi is not your man. It takes his friend, Ron Armitage, to tell of his heroics.

Gizzi, a former Federal Aviation Administration tower chief at the Akron-Canton Regional Airport, flew missions over Europe during World War II, earning a Distinguished Flying Cross. But Gizzi will be the first to tell you that he didn't did do it alone. He had help from the Tuskegee Airmen.