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Tuskegee Airman honored for historic decades-long career
Colonel Reginald Bassa, Sr., a Tuskegee Institute graduate and one of the oldest living Tuskegee Airmen, served a successful ...
Ronald Reagan narrated a short film in 1945 about the Tuskegee Airmen
In a 10-minute film from 1945, future-President Ronald Reagan tried to convince America why it needed flyers like the Tuskegee Airmen.
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From then to now: A look at Tuskegee Airmen's ties to Boca Raton
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.
Learn how these Mainers changed U.S. military history as Tuskegee Airmen in WWII
In 1941, the formation of the first group of Black military pilots and mechanics was underway in Tuskegee, Alabama where ...
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What the Air Force’s Tuskegee Airmen mishap reveals about Trump’s DEI war
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen’s service in World War II is ... On Sunday, his second full day on the job, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Air Force to resume teaching about the ...
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'This will not stand': Air Force resumes teaching on first Black pilots after DEI review
The move comes on the heels of the Air Force confirming Saturday that course instruction about the Tuskegee Airmen − the more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks in the segregated Arm ...
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Trump's DEI order strips Air Force curriculum of 1st Black pilots, female WWII pilots
The U.S. Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, the more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks in the segregated Army of World War II, an official with the ...