In 1941, the formation of the first group of Black military pilots and mechanics was underway in Tuskegee, Alabama where ...

Well before World War II, the nation’s troops had ... C.Q. Brown, a San Antonio native, became the first African American to lead the Air Force in 2020. He is now chairman of the Joint Chiefs ...

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen’s service in World War II is inspiring: When skilled African American pilots ... or DEI, the Air Force promptly removed videos about the Tuskegee aviators ...

Before World War II, African Americans were relegated to noncombat role. The all-Black 332nd Fighter Group, based at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama, shattered that barrier. The unit had as ...

Russell Clarence Nalle Jr., one of the last surviving World War II Tuskegee Airmen members, has died. He was 103.

the Air Force would no longer teach about the Tuskegee Airmen, Black pilots from World War II, or about that war’s Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs). Heroes. Both groups. But Secretary of ...

Air Medal with one Bronze Leaf Cluster, Prisoner of War Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with two Bronze Service Stars, World War II Victory Medal ...

“When I entered the plane, I looked into the cockpit there and there were two African American pilots ... Tuskegee Airmen ...

is disappointed and strongly opposed to the removal of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen’s story from the Air Force’s training courses, as part of a presidential executive order to suspend ...

“The air war in Europe was central to the outcome of World War II,” said historian Wayne Flynt ... full mobilization meant African Americans in all phases of warfare, including aviation ...

When a group of us in South Berwick heard that a video about the Tuskegee Airmen had been removed from an Air Force training ... for the Allies in World War 2 and were aware of the treatment ...

Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers ... He was also part of a team of four Tuskegee Airmen who won the US Air Force Top Gun flying competition in 1949 ...