Lt. Col. George M. Hubbard; Pilot Trained With Tuskegee Airmen

Lt. Col. George M. Hubbard, 76, who trained as one of the black Army Air Corps pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen. Hubbard, who spent 24 years with the Air Force, began flight training during World War II at Tuskegee Army Air Base in Tuskegee, Ala. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Langston University in Oklahoma and a master’s from the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology. He retired in 1966 as chief of supply at Norton Air Force Base. Hubbard then became public service director for the city of Riverside and served 14 years. He was president of the Riverside chapter of the Urban League and was active in the city’s NAACP, YMCA, Salvation Army, Girl Scouts and Rotary. Retiring to San Diego County, he helped form a San Diego chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc. On Jan. 4 in Oceanside.