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Showing posts with label US Air Force. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US Air Force. Show all posts
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...
Friday, August 07, 2020

History made as first African American general leads one of the military services

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Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown, Jr. became the new Air Force chief of staff on Thursday, making history as the first African American t...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Senate confirms Brown to be 22nd Air Force chief of staff

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The U.S. Senate confirmed Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., June 9, to be the 22nd Air Force chief of staff, clearing the way for the decorated p...
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 ...
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. ...
Sunday, July 08, 2018

African-American veterans monument in Buffalo will be first in U.S.

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Buffalo is expected to receive national attention soon, for the construction of a monument that will be the first of its kind in the co...