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As we reflect on the remarkable history of the United States military ... history. The Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps, overcame racial prejudice ...

Tuskegee Airman Lt. Frank H. Moody crashed on April 11, 1944. His was one of about 200 military aircraft lost the Great Lakes during World War II.

When Michele Whaley donated two cameras that belonged to her great uncle, Wisconsin's only Tuskegee Airman, to the Waukesha ...

Col. James H. Harvey III, 101, is among the last few airmen and support crew who proved that a Black unit — the 332nd Fighter Group of the Tuskegee Airmen — could fight as well as any other in ...

Why did Trump’s Air Force try to scrub videos and records of the excellent and celebrated Tuskegee Airmen and Navajo Code Talkers in World War II? Many pilots, sailors and troops were happy to get ...

(7News) — The first African Military aviators in the Air Force were honored with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration ... segregated Tuskegee Army Air Field to complete ...

the Air Force removed new recruit training courses that included videos of the Tuskegee Airmen. An article highlighting baseball and civil rights hero Jackie Robinson’s U.S. Army career was back ...

101-year-old Col. James H. Harvey III, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, sits for a portrait in Aurora, Colorado, on March 12. (Thomas Peipert/AP) Col. James H. Harvey III, 101, is among the ...

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 ...

Col. James H. Harvey III, 101, is among the last few airmen and support crew who proved that a Black unit — the 332nd Fighter Group of the Tuskegee Airmen — could fight as well as any other in World ...

Col. James H. Harvey III, 101, is among the last few airmen and support crew who proved that a Black unit — the 332nd Fighter Group of the Tuskegee Airmen — could fight as well as any other in ...