1. The Tuskegee institute trained the country’s first Black military pilots. 2. The Tuskegee Airmen had roots in Illinois. Before 1941, the U.S. military—which was officially segregated ...

Col. Charles E. McGee, national president of the Tuskegee Airmen Related content: Tuskegee Airmen Recall History-Making Service, Missions Last of the Doolittle Raiders, Dick Cole, Dies at 103 ...

(U.S. Air Force photo) Tuskegee Airmen navigator cadets practice their skills in an airborne trainer in 1944. (National Archives) An armorer inspects ammunition in a red-tailed P-51’s 50-cal.

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr, a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a member of Tuskegee Airmen and earned honors for his combat heroism, has died. He was 100.

BREAKING NEWS JUST INTO OUR NEWSROOM TONIGHT AFTER PUBLIC BACKLASH, THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT IS MAKING SURE THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN ACT OF HEROISM IS TAUGHT IN U.S. AIR FORCE TRAINING. NOW, WE HAD ...

The first African Military aviators in the Air Force were honored with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day (TACD) Thursday. TACD honors the nearly 19,000 men and ...

THE KIDS COMING ALONG HERE DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, BECAUSE IF IF YOU DON’T KEEP IT ALIVE AND GOING, IT’S GOING TO, YOU KNOW, JUST DRIFT AWAY. AND SO IT’S GOT TO WE ...

After provoking an uproar by shutting down a course that included instruction on the famed Tuskegee Airmen and a unit of pioneering female aviators, the Air Force said the subject matter would be ...

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 ...