Historian and storyteller Jim Armstead will portray Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., who commanded the Tuskegee Airmen during ...
The U.S. Navy Blue Angels will headline the show when it returns to Rickenbacker International Airport from Aug. 22 through ...
In the early hours of Sunday morning, Tuskegee Police Officer Alan Ashley heard gunshots near on-campus apartments and ran ...
Nicknamed “Red Tails” because of their fighter planes’ painted tails, Tuskegee Airmen flew more than 15,000 sorties during the war. Sixty-six of them died in combat. In all, according to the National ...
In this series, Austin Hancock tells the story of his effort to research and honor a local MIA Tuskegee Airman. [...] ...
As they returned, the airdome lit up with anti-aircraft fire. Martin’s plane was hit, and he bailed out over Yugoslavia.
By Randy Malmstrom Since his childhood, Randy Malmstrom has had a passion for aviation history and historic military aircraft ...
He also helped form the Tuskegee Airmen chapter in Detroit. The airmen were the nation’s first all-Black air fighter squadron. They trained and fought separately from white fighter units due to ...
and pride in that statue and the heroic actions of the Tuskegee Airmen.” Jefferson was a member of the famed Red Tails group that flew during World War II. During one mission in 1944 ...
On Oct. 27, 1998, Hurricane Mitch, one of the strongest recorded Atlantic storms, began a four-day siege of Central America, ...
In 1954, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., commander of the 332nd Fighter Group, the Tuskegee Airmen, became the first Black American promoted to the rank of general in the United States Air Force.