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Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. members are also commemorated the new holiday with an event on Saturday at 5:30pm in Brevard County. For additional details, click here.
The Schoolhouse Museum, a historic Rosenwald school, is honoring former Tuskegee Airman William R. White of Smithfield, along with other Tuskegee service pilots.
SARASOTA, Fla. — Of the 355 Tuskegee Airmen who served overseas during World War II, Lt. Col. (Ret.) George Hardy is one of the few who remain. On Sunday, he turned 100 in Sarasota. His life as ...
"Especially, because of what the Tuskegee Airmen mean to aviation and our country." Eden Fante, 17, a Lakeview High School student from St. Clair Shores, was set to ride in Sims' plane along with ...
Officials in Kansas City, Missouri, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, Liberty, and Overland Park signed proclamations recognizing National Tuskegee Airman Day.
Almost all of Tuskegee Airmen who survive are at least a century old, since a man who was 20 years old in 1945 would be 100 in 2025. They and their achievements need to be remembered.
101-year-old Col. James H. Harvey III, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, sits for a portrait in Aurora, Colorado, on March 12. (Thomas Peipert/AP) AURORA, Colo. — With members of a ...
In 1949, two months after the airmen's gunnery meet victory in the propeller-driven class, the U.S. Air Force integrated Black and white troops and the Tuskegee Airmen were absorbed into other units.
Of the 992 Tuskegee Airmen trained as pilots starting in 1942, 335 were deployed, 66 were killed in action and 32 who were shot down became war prisoners.
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first Black pilots in the U.S. military, who got their name from their training facility in Tuskegee, Alabama. The Airmen consisted of 15,000 men and women in total ...
The Tuskegee Airmen were legendary fighter pilots and support personnel who were not only an important part of the allies’ success in World War II, but thought to be the reason the U.S. military ...
Victor Croswell helped organize Tuskegee Airmen Day at the Aviation Institute of Maintenance. "Without those guys, I would not be here," Croswell said.