First organized as a “racial experiment,” a contingent of Black Americans began training to be aviators at Tuskegee, Alabama, ...

He was also part of a team of four Tuskegee Airmen who won the US Air Force Top Gun flying competition in 1949, although their accomplishment would not be recognized until decades later.

A decorated fighter pilot and legend in U.S. aviation history, Harry Stewart Jr. was one of the last surviving Tuskegee ...

He was also among four Tuskegee Airmen who won the 1949 U.S. Air Force Top Gun flying competition; they got first place in the propeller plane category. The accomplishment was acknowledged decades ...

Johnson won the "Top Gun' prize despite flying obsolete aircraft. It was a win the Air Force essentially hid until 1995. Read Next: The Tuskegee Airmen Won the First Air Force 'Top Gun' Aerial ...

The end of World War II did not keep Stewart on the ground. He would later participate in the Tuskegee Airmen's victorious Top Gun team in 1949. However, the official results of this year's ...