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Published June 17, 2012, 12:00 AM

Photo gallery: Joe Gomer


Duluth’s Joe Gomer, pictured here third from the left as a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, turns 92 Wednesday, the same day a statue of him will be unveiled. “I’m just very fortunate to be here,” he said last week. “Once you’ve been fired at with real bullets you don’t let life’s pop guns bother you.” (Submitted photo)

  • Duluth’s Joe Gomer, pictured here third from the left as a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, turns 92 Wednesday, the same day a statue of him will be unveiled. “I’m just very fortunate to be here,” he said last week. “Once you’ve been fired at with real bullets you don’t let life’s pop guns bother you.” (Submitted photo)
  • A member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, Duluth’s Joe Gomer, second from the left in this picture from his military days, enjoys speaking to school groups. “I tell the youngsters I never dreamed in my lifetime I’d have a black commander-in-chief,” he said last week after attending President Obama’s inauguration. “We’ve come a long ways.”
  • Duluth’s Joe Gomer received the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor in 2007, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. Congress.
  • Joe Gomer of Duluth was a Tuskegee Airman during World War II. (Submitted photo)
  • This is an artist’s conception of the statue being unveiled Wednesday in honor of Tuskegee Airman Joe Gomer. The Northland Veterans Services Committee needed to raise about $42,000 to produce the life-sized bronze likeness of Gomer in his flight suit. (File / News Tribune)