This Black History Month, we're honoring the Tuskegee Airmen, who were inducted into the U.S. Armed Forces on Feb. 19, 1942.

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Near the end of the war, the average age of a B-17 crew member in 1944 was 19 to 22, with pilots and co-pilots somewhat older and gunners, radio operators, and flight engineers a little younger, some ...

"Black Angels Over Tuskegee," a historical drama about the Tuskegee Airmen by Layon Gray, will have a free public performance ...

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.