Davis, Jr., who later became the Air Force's first African American general, were in the program. These and later graduates became known as "Tuskegee Airmen," and formed the 99th Pursuit Squadron.

The African-American Cultural & Genealogical Society of Illinois, Inc. Museum is celebrating Black History Month with a ...

The Milford Museum will kick off Black History Month with a program to ensure an important part of war history is remembered.

In 1948, she became the first Black woman in the regular Army Nurse Corps. She later served in Vietnam with the Air Force.

The City of Rahway will host the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition “Black Wings: American Dreams of Flight” at The ...

An exhibit on the Tuskegee Airmen and Kokomo’s ties to the group of Black World War II pilots and airmen is on display at the ...

Colon, the first African American commissioned into the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after it was desegregated in the 1940s, died ...

Landon, left, and Shawnte Parker check out the “Tuskegee Airmen: America’s Freedom Flyers” exhibit Thursday as members of Mt.

There were 992 African American pilots trained between 1942 and 1946. Roughly 14,000 men and women joined the Tuskegee Airmen as ground support. Five of the Airmen were from Howard County ...

Pilot Co. last month opened its largest location to date in Stanton, Tennessee, a 20,000-square-foot travel center.