Your article “Dying for Britain and France for nothing” (NA April), based on David Killingray’s book, Fighting for Britain, was highly informative on the role African soldiers played in the First and Second World Wars. The purpose of writing to you, however, is to urge you to publish an article about the role “The Black Eagle”, an African-American pilot, played in the liberation of Abyssinia from Mussolini’s fascists. This African-American trained himself to fly and then went to Abyssinia to train Ethiopians to fly and fight. He was a very colourful personality who continued to play a role in Africa, including Patrice Lumumba’s Congo.