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 ...
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 ...
The last surviving Tuskegee Airman died last year, but the legacy of the storied squadron lives on. Modern-day historians ...
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 Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American military pilots in the US and Jefferson was one of the first few to escort bombers in the war. According to the National Air and Space Museum ...