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.
Humans (well, at least some of us) have turned their gaze skyward and envied the birds since time immemorial. From the mythical attempts of Icarus to take to the skies to DaVinci’s fanciful designs, ...
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 ...
Dylan Gilmer has lit up screens since age 6 when a video of him rapping to Bryson Tiller’s “Don’t” went viral. The young ...
The Red Tails’ most significant mission was the escort of B-17 bombers on a bombing run over Berlin in March 1945. They flew ...
Lloyd Carter, who was killed in a plane crash in June 1945, was among the elite group of Black aviators who broke color ...
Black men whose courage, dedication, and success helped pave the way toward integration of the United States Armed Forces. In honor of Black History Month, the Perrin Air Force Base Museum combined ...
The unit sometimes was also known as the Tuskegee Airmen for where they trained in Alabama or the Red Tails because of the red tips of their P-51 Mustangs. “I did not recognize at the time the ...