In 1933, Bruce graduated from Garfield High School and soon enrolled at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. While there, he met his future wife, Grace Grace Theola Foy and they married in 1939. Grace T. Foy was born Feb. 12, 1922 in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, and died June 5, 1995 (aged 73) in Guilford, Guilford County, North Carolina. Her parents were, Juliette Pierce Foy (1895–1982) and Eddie Julius Foy Sr. (1891–1955).
Sam and Grace had one child, Barbara Brenda Bruce Sellars born in 1943 and died in 1988.

Left photograph shows Dr. F.D. Bluford, president of NC A&T in Greensboro, North Carolina pinning the Purple Heart on Lieutenant Sam Bruce's wife, Grace. Bruce, was a graduate of A & T University, and was one of the first volunteers for the Tuskegee Airmen flight school, was killed in action January 27,1944.
Source: A & T Library Archives
Insert photograph: Lt. Bruce, military photograph.
Right image: Photograph and headline from newspaper article.
Source: Find A Grave

Note: Ferdinand Douglass Bluford (August 4, 1882 – December 21, 1955) was the third president of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Bluford headed the college for 30 years, serving longer than any president or chancellor in the school's history.
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By Darhian Mills

Samuel (Sam) Bruce Martin (1915-1944)

In 1940, the federal government created the Tuskegee Airmen program and located it at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, Bruce became one of the first volunteers to enter Tuskegee Flight School. He graduated on September 6, 1942, as a second lieutenant in class 42-H-SE. In that same year, he was assigned to the 99th Fighter Squadron under the command of Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. Members of the 99th Pursuit Squadron were some of the first Tuskegee Airmen to complete their training and be sent to Europe after the United States entered World War II. From 1941 to 1946, nearly one thousand airmen were trained at Tuskegee.

The 99th Pursuit Squadron was the first all-African American pursuit squadron that consisted of pilots, navigators, bombardiers, maintenance and support staff, instructors, and other personnel responsible for keeping the planes in the air. They were the direct result of the constant pressure on the Franklin Roosevelt Administration from African Americans demanding a more prominent role in the military and an end to the ban on Black pilots.

Lieutenant Sam Bruce served in the 99th Fighter Squadron before the unit was sent to North Africa in 1943 and redeployed to Italy early in 1944. Bruce went missing in action on January 27, 1944, while pursuing a German fighter plane during the Battle of Anzio in Anzio, Italy. Soon after, he was pronounced dead. Bruce was only twenty-nine years old and one of the first Black pilots to die in World War II combat.

Sadly, Bruce never had a chance to meet his only daughter, as she was born a month after his death. Bruce was initially buried in Italy, but at the request of his mother, his body was returned to Seattle and buried in the Evergreen Washelli Veterans Memorial Cemetery.

As a tribute to Lieutenant Sam Martin Bruce, Tuskegee Airmen and their supporters in the Seattle, Washington, area created the Sam Bruce Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. in 1975.

Source: Find A Grave; Black Past
Source of the Author's Information:
Jerry Large, “Saluting a Seattle WWII Tuskegee Airman,” The Seattle
Times, http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/saluting-a-seattle-wwii-tuskegee-airman/;
“Bruce, Samuel M., 2nd Lt.,” Together We Served, http://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=172042;
“Northwest Connection: The Tuskegee Airmen,” 4 Culture, http://www.naamnw.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/NAAM.TuskgeeHiRes2bestcopy1.pdf;
“Airmen History,” Tuskegee Airmen Inc. Same Bruce Chapter, http://sambrucetai.org/about-tuskegee-airmen/; “A Brief History,”
Tuskegee Airmen Inc., http://tuskegeeairmen.org/explore-tai/a-brief-history/.