Mrs. Leftenant-Colon joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in February 1948 ... part of the famed Tuskegee Airmen. She repeatedly faced hostile supervisors, who made it clear that she would be ...

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

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.

Videos about the famed Tuskegee Airmen and the WASP corps ... Army planes. They in turn worked to train new Army Air Force pilots. The women in WASP also ferried aircraft inside the United States ...

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.

The Tuskegee Airmen were Black military pilots and crew members who served in World War II and were notably the first Black military aviators in the United States ... U.S. Army Air Corps to ...

In 1945, she was accepted into the Army Nurse Corps as a reservist with the rank of second lieutenant ... She was the sister of one of the famous Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black airmen who fought ...

The Red Tails’ most significant mission was the escort of B-17 bombers on a bombing run over Berlin in March 1945. They flew ...

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first all-African American fighter pilot squadron, serving as part of the 332 Fighter Group and the 477 Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air ... Stewart ...