Wilbur V. Martin and the Tuskegee Airmen Project

After Wilbur V. Martin participated in a Ghana session, he went to visit Mr. Kevin Gould’s engineering class at Asbury Park High School. Mr. Gould showed Mr. Martin the project his and Mr. Wronko’s students were currently working on which was a model frame of a B-25 Bomber. The Tuskegee airmen were being trained to go to war in a B-25 Bomber, but World War II came to an end before that occurred.

Wilbur V. Martin and the Tuskegee Airmen Project

Wilbur V. Martin and the Tuskegee Airmen Project

On Mr. Gould’s door was a model sample of the B-25 Bomber along with a history of the Tuskegee airmen’s missions of protecting many bombers during combat. A great way to end the day with a combination of military history from Wilbur V. Martin and an engineering project involving the Tuskegee airmen. Through this study of military history brought about many great topics for Black History Month.

Wilbur V. Martin and the Tuskegee Airmen Project

David Wronko

By David Wronko

David Wronko is a history teacher at Asbury Park High School sharing with the Jersey Voices community the wonderful stories coming out of Asbury Park. Mr. David Wronko was VFW Teacher of the Year, 2011-2012, Teacher of the Year for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, 2014-2015, MLK Middle School Teacher of the Month for January 2016, and given the recognition award from the Asbury Park Board of Education for volunteering to tutoring students on Saturdays in 2011. Also Mr. David Wronko was published in two issues of NJEA Review Magazine.