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a collection of predominantly Black troops that helped supply Allied forces during World War II. Tuskegee Airmen Shelton 'Ivan' Ware, right, and William T. Fauntroy Jr., 2nd from right ...

He was the first Black jet fighter pilot in Korean airspace during the Korean War, and a decorated one after 126 missions.

Thanks for the article about the new memorial to Tuskegee Airman Carl J. Woods Jr. at Mars Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7505. Your readers might be interested in story from the book “The Forgotten ...

He was a member of a segregated unit in the Pacific Northwest that fought forest fires set off by Japanese balloon bombs.

101-year-old Col. James H. Harvey III, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, sits for a portrait in Aurora, Colorado, on ...

The inaugural Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day is Thursday night from 7 until 9 in the Ballroom of Westgate Lakes Resort and ...

Florida is one of the first states in the nation to honor the Tuskegee airmen with their own holiday and on Saturday, Channel ...

TACD honors the nearly 19,000 men and women, who were a part of the Tuskegee Airmen Experience during World War II, including 996 pilot graduates and 2483 pilot trainees, according to Tuskegee ...

Jack Riggio felt that Carl J. Woods Jr., a Tuskegee Airman from Mars who was killed in World War II, was a hero who deserved ...

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 ...