Mrs. Leftenant-Colon joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in February 1948 ... part of the famed Tuskegee Airmen. She repeatedly faced hostile supervisors, who made it clear that she would be ...

In 1941, the formation of the first group of Black military pilots and mechanics was underway in Tuskegee, Alabama where ...

Stewart Jr., one of World War II’s few remaining members of the original Tuskegee Airmen, died peacefully ... a segregated all-Black wing of the United States Army Air Forces.

THE EXHIBIT ALSO HAS A SECTION DEVOTED TO THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN WHO FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR TWO. THEY WERE THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN MILITARY AVIATORS IN THE UNITED STATES ... U.S. Army Air Corps.Las ...

The Tuskegee Airmen were Black military pilots and crew members who served in World War II and were notably the first Black military aviators in the United States ... U.S. Army Air Corps to ...

Harry Stewart Jr., one of the last two remaining members of the 355 original Tuskegee Airmen during World ... segregated all-Black wing of the United States Army Air Force. They were part of ...

In her book "Small Town, Big Secrets," historian Sally J. Ling shares how 28 Black cadets came to Boca Raton to be trained on radar, some of whom would become Tuskegee Airmen.

The Red Tails’ most significant mission was the escort of B-17 bombers on a bombing run over Berlin in March 1945. They flew ...