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Olga Custodio, the Air Force’s first Hispanic female pilot. “I don’t understand ... Terri Sewell, a Democrat from Alabama, where the Black airmen were based. “To strip them from the ...
The Northrop F-89 Scorpion, the US Air Force’s first jet-powered interceptor and the first combat aircraft armed with ...
The P-61 was a beautiful ship to fly. It didn’t have a wicked bone in its body, and would tolerate mishandling that would ...
Gen. George A. Joulwan, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, recognized the sacrifices made by Schuylkill County servicemen and women in Vietnam in a letter dated May 25, 1996. “As a company commander ...
And after a 1940 law — The Selective Training and Service Act — forced the War Department to accept Blacks in numerical proportion to whites, he became a pilot in one of the Air Force's first Black, ...