"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 ...

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 ...

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.

On behalf of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF), the exhibit RISE ABOVE showed a 30-minute film chronicling the U.S. military’s first African-American pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen. The exhibit was ...