Each day, as we have learned, brings new information about another first for Black Americans. It is something that may go on ...

Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single ...

The Tuskegee Airmen were Black military pilots and crew members who served in World War II and were notably the first Black ...

Harry Stewart Jr. was one of the legendary flying corps' most decorated pilots during the WWII, having claimed three Nazi ...

Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, has passed ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated ... including a brother who was a famed Tuskegee Airmen pilot. He was killed in a mid-air collision ...

He was one of two of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed combat pilots of World War II.

Las Cruces native James Flowers trained the Tuskegee Airmen, who flew combat missions in Europe that earned them medals and a ...

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 ...

Harry Stewart Jr. learned to fly even before he could drive and helped save the world from the evils of fascism.

McGee died in 2022. The Tuskegee Airmen were founded in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama, when the U.S. Army Air Corps began a program to train Black servicemembers as Air Corps Cadets, according to the ...

The U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black ...