In her book "Small Town, Big Secrets," historian Sally J. Ling shares how 28 Black cadets came to Boca Raton to be trained on radar, some of whom would become Tuskegee Airmen.
In 1941, the formation of the first group of Black military pilots and mechanics was underway in Tuskegee, Alabama where ...
The Red Tails’ most significant mission was the escort of B-17 bombers on a bombing run over Berlin in March 1945. They flew ...
Each day, as we have learned, brings new information about another first for Black Americans. It is something that may go on for generations.
In a 10-minute film from 1945, future-President Ronald Reagan tried to convince America why it needed flyers like the Tuskegee Airmen.
"Black Angels Over Tuskegee," a historical drama about the Tuskegee Airmen by Layon Gray, will have a free public performance ...
The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated ... including a brother who was a famed Tuskegee Airmen pilot. He was killed in a mid-air collision ...
Harry Stewart Jr. was one of the legendary flying corps' most decorated pilots during the WWII, having claimed three Nazi aircraft in a single day.
Harry Stewart, Jr., one of World War II’s few remaining members of the original Tuskegee Airmen, died peacefully ... a segregated all-Black wing of the United States Army Air Force.