» Read discussion on Tuskegee Airman 05/28/11 The Tuskegee Airmen, a group of black pilots who fought in World War II, often are a forgotten story, said George Dunmore, an original Tuskegee Airman.
05/15/11 Tuskegee Airman James A. Sheppard laughs while relating a war story during an interview in Bangor on Saturday, May 14, 2011. Buy Photo
11/04/10 Tuskegee Airman, Oliver Goodall, rests between meeting guests at the Tuskegee Airmen educational screening event on December 6, 2009, at St. Francis High School in La Canada, CA.
06/16/10 William H. Holloman III, a Tuskegee Airman, didn't stop serving his country when his active duty as one of the United States' first African-American combat pilots ended after World War II.
02/25/10 Lt. Col. Spann Watson Receives Proclamation North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jon Kaiman, Councilwoman Viviana L. Russell and members of the town council paid tribute to two local icons: Westbury resident and former Tuskegee Airman Lt. Col. Spann Watson and Dr. Louis J. Auguste of Great Neck, a Long Island Jewish Medical Center oncologist who led a relief mission to Haiti. Both were presented with ...
02/18/10 Charles H. Flowers, a Prince George's County resident who was a Tuskegee Airman and for whom Springdale's Charles H. Flowers High School was named, will be available to answer questions of residents after a viewing of the movie "The Tuskegee Airmen" at 4 p.m. Feb. 26 at the Columbia Park Community Center at 1901 Kent Village Drive in Landover.
01/08/10 Filed under: News , Politics Former Tuskegee Airman Percy Sutton's funeral services were held yesterday in New York. Among those in attendance were Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Gov. David Paterson, Sen. Charles Schumer, Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson. "The tallest tree in our forest has fallen," Jackson said of Sutton, who died on Dec. 26. He was 89. "You've paved the way, Mr. Chairman. Be ...
01/07/10 Thousands of mourners filled Riverside Church on Wednesday for the funeral of Percy Sutton, a former Tuskegee Airman who became a pioneering civil rights attorney representing Malcolm X, a power broker and media mogul.
01/01/10 Senior Airman Christopher Miller of the 532nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron was the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing's Tuskegee Airman of the Week for Dec. 13-19.
12/31/09 A dapper, debonair don if ever there was one, Percy Sutton was more than a pioneer. He was a beautiful man who embraced his community by providing services and resources for that community. The outpouring has been incredible and thorough for the Tuskegee Airman who became an attorney, entrepreneur, civic leader and civil rights activist. The head of the prominent Sutton family and former ...
12/14/09 This is the back of the Purple Heart medal earned by Capt. Hugh J. White, a Tuskegee Airman who grew up in St. Louis and graduated from Sumner High School.
10/06/09 This is not Oz, the white U.S. Army Air Corps captain tells the young black Tuskegee Airman. 'There has never been and there never will be any flying monkeys.''
09/28/09 Col. Elmer D. Jones (Ret.) is a Tuskegee Airman, one of the pioneer black members of the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Now 91, he recalls with pride his service with the segregated group that proved its ability to perform effectively in aerial combat despite military and political opposition....
09/16/09 MICHIGAN CITY -- With a smile and a step that belied his years, Tuskegee Airman and local educator Quentin P. Smith accepted this year's Lifetime Achievement Award from the Northwest Indiana Quality of Life Council on Tuesday. Speaking in a firm voice to 175 members and guests at Blue Chip Casino, Smith spoke of his fellow honorees who received the council's Promise of the Future and ...
09/04/09 Tuskegee Airman Robert A. Decatur often spoke in public about being one of only about 960 black pilots who escorted the all-white crews of bombers over Europe, how he inscribed his plane in Latin with the slogan "Through Adversity, to the Stars," and how one of the characters in a 1995 HBO movie about the black pilots was based on him.
09/04/09 BILOXI, MS (AP) - Tuskegee Airman Robert A. Decatur was buried with full military honors this week in the Biloxi National Cemetery but his death at age 88 has not laid to rest the contention of comrades that Decatur's legendary life was largely his own creation.
08/21/09 Family, friends and fellow airmen said longtime Titusville resident, Tuskegee Airman and retired Judge Robert Decatur will be remembered as a civil rights activist who was one of the first black attorneys in Cleveland, Ohio. | 
