BROCKPORT, N.Y. (WROC) — Nicknamed “Sticks,” Leland Pennington was a star athlete for Monroe High School before he started training at Tuskegee Army Airfield in 1943.
He married in 1944 then headed off to Europe to defend the free world.
On April 21, 1945, just month before the war ended, Pennington took off in his P-51B Mustang fighter from an airbase in Italy to help escort bombers to Austria…