"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 ...
The last surviving Tuskegee Airman died last year, but the legacy of the storied squadron lives on. Modern-day historians ...
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 ...