Two of the 19 African American men from Missouri who went through flight training at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and can be called Tuskegee Airmen graduated from Lincoln High School in Joplin.

ON AIR AND ONLINE. CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS AND OTHER DIGNITARIES WILL COME OUT FOR THE FIRST EVER OFFICIAL STATE HOLIDAY FOR THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN LAST MARCH, BOTH HOUSES OF THE FLORIDA STATE ...

The Tuskegee Airmen unit was established in 1941 as the 99th Pursuit Squadron based at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The 99th became the 332nd Fighter Group, which by war’s end destroyed or ...

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — With members of a trailblazing Black Air Force unit passing away at advanced ages, efforts to remain true to their memory carry on despite sometimes confusing orders from ...

Col. James H. Harvey III, 101, is among the last few airmen and support crew who proved that a Black unit — the 332nd Fighter Group of the Tuskegee Airmen — could fight as well as any other in ...