Mal Whitfield, a Tuskegee airman and former Ohio State star who won Olympic track and field titles in the 800 meters in 1948 and 1952, died Thursday. He was 91.
Fredricka Whitfield said her father, who served for decades as a sports affairs officer for the U.S. Information Agency, died at the Veterans Administration hospital in Washington.
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“Marvelous Mal” Whitfield was a member of the Army Air Force’s 100th Fighter Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group at Lockbourne AFB in Ohio, and flew 27 combat missions during the Korean War.