Alexander Jefferson and Bill Holloman. The Quys agreed that their plane belonged at the Smithsonian, where it would symbolize the Tuskegee Airmen’s story for millions of visitors. On August 2 ...

In April 1944, a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen, Second Lieutenant Frank Moody, was on a routine training mission when his plane malfunctioned. Moody lost control of the aircraft and plunged to ...

On April 11, 1944, a young Tuskegee Airman, 22-year-old Frank Moody from Los Angeles, was on a training mission from Selfridge Air Base when something caused his plane to crash into the waters of ...

Detroit — A World War II plane piloted by a Tuskegee Airman went down in 1944 in Lake Huron, and until a dive team serendipitously stumbled upon the remnants of the aircraft 70 years later ...

Teens in Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum program to be part of funeral flyover for legendary pilot Lt. Col. Harry ...

LOS ANGELES -- On the morning of April 11, 1944, Tuskegee pilot Second Lieutenant ... Moody's body was found months later, but the plane was missing for decades. Now, 80 years later National ...

But on April 11, 1944, that’s what happened when Moody, a Black Tuskegee Airman, was flying a training run with three other pilots in his P-39 fighter and his plane suddenly augured in ...

6. Some Tuskegee Airmen were dubbed “red tails.” Tuskegee Airmen Marcellus G. Smith (left) and Roscoe C. Brown work on a plane nicknamed Tootsie in Ramitelli, Italy, in March 1945.

Lieutenant Stewart and three other Tuskegee Airmen won the first-place trophy in the propeller-plane category. Image In 2009, when the Tuskegee Airmen National Museum brought one of the few flying ...