Photo: Getty Images Memorial Day began in the mid-1800s as a way to honor the people who died in the American Civil War. The ...

Kane attended the Tuskegee Airman Commemoration Ceremony at Lowell City Hall ... became the first American nurse in the regular United States Army Nurse Corps in March of 1943 after it was ...

the U.S. Army Air Corps created a program to train black pilots, bombardiers, navigators and aircraft maintenance and ground crews at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The Tuskegee Airmen became an ...

Is it time for the United States to create a new federal holiday to recognize the Tuskegee Airmen? It may be ... training black pilots in the Army Air Corps. The 99th Fighter Pursuit Squadron ...

Maria Ines Ortiz, who served in the Iraq War and was the first Army nurse killed in combat since ... War page contains information about the United States Colored Troops, Black American regiments ...

Coleman returned to the United States aboard the ... “DODO” Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen. (Ernie Cox Jr./Chicago Tribune) First Black unit of the U.S. Army Air Corps The U.S. Army put ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and every other unqualified white man flailing in positions of power are the reasons why we need diversity, equity and inclusion programs to create a meritocratic ...

Stewart Jr., one of World War II’s few remaining members of the original Tuskegee Airmen, died peacefully ... a segregated all-Black wing of the United States Army Air Forces.

THE EXHIBIT ALSO HAS A SECTION DEVOTED TO THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN WHO FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR TWO. THEY WERE THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN MILITARY AVIATORS IN THE UNITED STATES ... U.S. Army Air Corps.Las ...

As executive orders continue to be signed in the office of the 47th President of the United States ... of Army Air Corps flying units during training. Bombers accompanied by the Tuskegee Airmen ...

Mrs. Leftenant-Colon joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in February 1948 ... part of the famed Tuskegee Airmen. She repeatedly faced hostile supervisors, who made it clear that she would be ...

In 1945, she was accepted into the Army Nurse Corps as a reservist with the rank of second lieutenant ... She was the sister of one of the famous Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black airmen who fought ...