Remembering Jerry T. Hodges Jr., the last surviving Tuskegee Airman from Arkansas, who passed away at 99. A life of ...
On an otherwise mundane Army Airfield in rural Indiana, a group of high-tech German warplanes brought stateside as war ...
Then civilian pilot training was expanded and civil right efforts allowed for black pilots to train at the Tuskegee Army Air Field, creating the Tuskegee Airmen. These aviators gained recognition ...
They were trained at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama, which is how they got the name Tuskegee Airmen. “It means a lot, really,” Harvey said. “I never expected to be a part of anything ...
At the urging from Black newspapers and civil rights groups, the Army Air Corps opened a training site for Black pilots in Tuskegee, Alabama. More than 14,000 mostly college-educated Black men and ...
Roosevelt’s administration to order the Army Air Corps (precursor to the Air Force) to form a segregated flight training base at Moton Air Field in Tuskegee, Ala. That African-American pursuit ...
One of the last living Tuskegee Airmen in North Texas has died. Colonel Lloyd B. McKeethen died at 98 years old in Dallas ...
The last Tuskegee Airmen from Memphis died on Thursday at the age of 99, according to Taste of Aviation. Jerry T. Hodges Jr.
The Supreme Court of Ohio’s Visitor Education Center’s new exhibits concerning military justices and the Tuskegee Airmen ... at Lockbourne Army Airfield, now named Rickenbacker Air National ...