Longtime Camden resident, Floyd White has been working to ensure that Black veterans from his community are properly honored ...
From Black men who left successful sports careers to join the squadron in the 1940s to current sports personalities inspired by their story, the Tuskegee Airmen’s impact is still felt.
"The last hurrah" for the Tuskegee airmen, as retired Lt. Col. James H. Harvey puts it, was the 1949 gunnery meet at what was then called Las Vegas Air Force Base. One month later, in June 1949 ...
Fly Boys: Western Pennsylvania's Tuskegee Airman is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...
For years, he tried to expose the Tuskegee syphilis study ... the time to add that “Donahue” was a morning talk show. In Philadelphia, he arrived every weekday at 9 a.m., which meant that ...
Nathan Otha Thomas, a Tuskegee airman and retired postal worker, died on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024. He was 98. Thomas was affectionately known as Nate by family members and friends. He was born on Oct ...
In 1942, a group of college graduates are selected for training as pilots in the Army Air Corps at the Tuskegee training base. In what is billed by everyone as an experiment, the men face not only ...
An exhibit on the Tuskegee Airmen and Kokomo’s ties to the group of Black World War II pilots and airmen is on display at the ...
Here's another fascinating artifact of that period: Wings for This Man, a film produced near the end of the war, narrated by Reagan, touting the heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen — the all-black ...
The last surviving Tuskegee Airman died last year, but the legacy of the storied squadron lives on. Modern-day historians ...
On Dec. 19, 2024, the nation lost one of its last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, Jerry T. Hodges Jr., who passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 99. Family and friends of Jerry T. Hodges are ...
president of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen. The Airmen, also known as the Red Tails, were renowned for having the fewest number of bombers shot down during the war. One of the ...