The first African Military aviators in the Air Force were honored with a wreath-laying ceremony at the annual Tuskegee Airmen ...

It’s great to see an Eagle Scout project that not only adds to a community, but memorializes a local hero for their service to the nation. Jack Riggio, a Scout with Mars Boy Scout Troop 400, drove ...

While an impressive number for the time and circumstances, there were also many others at the Tuskegee Army Air Field (TAAF) training, teaching, learning and working to defeat fascism overseas.

In the army, Young was arrested while trying to ... In 1941, in a much-publicized visit, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt went to Tuskegee Airfield and took off in a plane flown by a Black pilot.

Retired Lt. Col. Harry T. Stewart Jr., one of World War II’s few remaining members of the original Tuskegee Airmen, died peacefully in his home in Michigan on Sunday, the Tuskegee Airmen ...

Stewart was among the first 1,000 Black pilots in the 1940s trained at the Tuskegee Army Airfield in Alabama before Black and white airmen were allowed to serve together. Only one of them is still ...

Harry T. Stewart celebrates his “hat trick” after downing three Nazi aircraft. (Courtesy of Lt. Col. Harry T. Stewart/HistoryNet) Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart, Jr., one of World War II’s ...

DETROIT — Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated combat pilot of World War II’s mostly Black 332nd Fighter Group, commonly known as the Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was 100.