First organized as a “racial experiment,” a contingent of Black Americans began training to be aviators at Tuskegee, Alabama, ...
A reader says eliminating the narratives of Tuskegee airmen and women pilots in our military history is a massive step ...
The San Antonio chapter of Tuskegee Airmen is asking the city to rename a section of Iowa Street as Tuskegee Airmen Way in honor of America’s first Black milita ...
He never once mentioned that he was a Tuskegee Airman. I knocked on his office door and approached him about it. I’ll never forget his warm smile and handshake that day. It was an honor.
Harry Stewart Jr. recorded three victories in one day and won the first-ever 'Top Gun' contest for military pilots.
Thomas Hawkins served and died in World War II, part of the elite group of African American pilots known as Tuskegee Airmen.
Lt. Col. Harry T. Stewart Jr. of Michigan, one of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, has died.
Las Cruces native James Flowers trained the Tuskegee Airmen, who flew combat missions in Europe that earned them medals and a ...
In 1941, a segregated airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama, was selected as the primary flight training facility for black pilot candidates in the United States military.   They were known as the ...
In 2007, the Tuskegee Airmen were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. In 2019 ... the institution’s highest honor, for their accomplishments and patriotism in the face of discrimination ...
Bush presented them with the Congressional Medal of Honor.James Flowers celebrated his 109th birthday in December. LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Their numbers are few, but the story of the Tuskegee Airmen ...