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Showing posts with label Tuskegee Airmen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tuskegee Airmen. Show all posts
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Boeing Unveils First T-7A Red Hawk Advanced Trainer Jet that honors the Tuskegee Airmen

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Boeing has unveiled the first T-7A Red Hawk advanced trainer jet to be delivered to the U.S. Air Force. The jet, one of 351 the U.S. Air ...
Sunday, January 16, 2022

Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee dies at 102

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Retired Brigadier General Charles McGee, part of the pioneering all-Black Tuskegee Airmen during World War Two and one of its most decora...
Tuesday, January 04, 2022

Washington Football Team will NOT be called the Red Tails

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By George L. Cook III African American Reports Two years after the Washington Football Team dropped its name which many considered racis...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Tuskegee Airmen Clifton Brooks Sr. dies at 99

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Cliffton E. Brooks Sr., who served as a cryptologist with the famed all-Black Tuskegee Airmen, passed away Friday night at the age of 99....
Saturday, October 02, 2021

NJ School to be renamed after Tuskegee Airman

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Malcolm E. Nettingham died last year at age 101, but his legacy as a member of World War II's celebrated Tuskegee Airman will long be...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Air Force football unveils new uniforms honoring Tuskegee Airmen

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The Air Force football team unveiled new uniforms that honor the Tuskegee Airmen. The uniforms were revealed Monday as a part of the 2020...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Tuskegee Airman from N.J. dies at 101

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Tuskegee Airmen Malcolm Nettingham, 101, of Scotch Plains, NJ died Monday. He would have been 102 on Oct. 1. “He said he was not a hero...
Saturday, August 22, 2020

Tuskegee Airman James A. Cotten dead at 93

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James Alonzo Cotten was born on June 4, 1927, in Chapel Hill, NC. At his request, he was cared for at home by his family, and transiti...
Saturday, January 11, 2020

Air Force Names New Jet the T-7A Red Hawk in Honor of Tuskegee Airmen

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The U.S. Air Force will call its new trainer the T-7A "Red Hawk." Acting Air Force Secretary Matt Donovan announced the name ...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

100-year-old Tuskegee Airmen promoted to Brigadier General

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On Dec. 20, 2019 One hundred year old Tuskegee Airmen Charles McGee was promoted to Brigadier General when the National Defense Authori...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

Plaza in NYC named for Tuskegee Airman Captain Roscoe Brown

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NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP, today joined Former New York City Mayor David Norman Dinkins; Bronx Borough President R...
Saturday, November 02, 2019

Air Force Academy airfield named in honor of Tuskegee Airmen commander

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Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the first African American general in the Air Force, once said, “I could have been a teacher. I could have ...
Friday, August 23, 2019

99-year-old Tuskegee Airman awarded five overdue WWII medals

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99-year-old Thomas Franklin Vaughns served in the Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1946 as a mechanic for the Tuskegee Airman and was also la...
Tuesday, July 02, 2019

Tuskegee Airman gets diploma 80 years after high school

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James Shipley, who was unable to finish high school but went on to serve as crew chief for the famed Tuskegee Airman has received an ho...
Sunday, June 23, 2019

Tuskegee Airman Who Flew 142 WWII Combat Missions Dies at 99

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World War II pilot Robert Friend, one of the last original members of the famed all-black Tuskegee Airmen, has died at the age of 99. ...
Saturday, December 08, 2018

100-year-old Tuskegee Airman, Wilfred Defour found dead in Harlem home

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Wilfred DeFour, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen — an all-black squadron of World War II pilots that inspired African-Americans across th...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

Tuskegee Airman who went missing during World War II identified 73 years later

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The Defense Department announced Friday that it has accounted for the first of more than two dozen black aviators known as Tuskegee Airm...
Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Thomas Ellis, a Tuskegee Airman, is dead at 97

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Former Sgt. Maj. Thomas Ellis, one of six surviving Tuskegee Airmen in San Antonio, died Jan. 2 of a stroke in a local hospital. He was ...
Friday, June 30, 2017

Tuskegee Airman, Congressional Gold Medal winner George Watson dies

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George Watson Sr. of Lakewood NJ, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen has died. He was 96. Mr. Watson died of complications due to p...
Friday, April 21, 2017

Tuskegee Airman Buford A. Johnson dead at 89

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Buford A. Johnson, a Tuskegee Airman who served as a mechanic and crew chief in the Army Air Corps and U.S. Air Force and spent his reti...