During the First World War(1914), Sergeant William Robinson Clarke(photo below) originally Jamaican became the first Black pilot to fly for Britain. His story was discovered by chance in the Archive of the Royal Air Force Museum.

Volunteering for the ‘mother country’ William Robinson Clarke was one of 15,600 Black Caribbean volunteers who enlisted to fight during the First World War for Britain.

Ha-ha-ha, what's funny in this story was the fact that White Americans at that time have not heard of Robinson Clarke in 1914, thus in the 1940's(second world War) American Whites still believed Black men can't fly . They should have asked the Brits on that. LOL