Las Vegas Review-Journal12y
Tuskegee airmen fought war, segregation
"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 ...
Post and Courier4y
Rising above: Tuskegee Airmen, trailblazers of US military's first African-American pilots
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 ...
ESPN1y
Tuskegee Airmen in sports
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 ... the Army Air Corps opened ...
Air & Space Forces Association Announces 2025 Scholarship Opportunities
The Air & Space Forces Association (AFA) is pleased to announce the opening of its 2024-2025 scholarship application cycle, ...
National Geographic news4y
‘I just want them to be remembered as good citizens’ who helped protect their country ‘even in the face of discrimination.’
Stewart, Jr., Tuskegee Airman, U.S. A handcrafted model of a ... After the war Stewart stayed in the Air Force—President Harry Truman mandated racial integration of the military in 1948 ...
TV Guide3y
The Tuskegee Airmen - Full Cast & Crew
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 ...