The Air Force Academy will name its airfield in honor of Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., a Tuskegee Airman and World War II pilot, in a ceremony Friday. Davis, the first African American pilot to solo ...

Benjamin O. Davis Jr. made history as the first African American to be promoted to Major General in the United States Air ...

His son, Benjamin O. Davis Jr., followed in his footsteps by joining ... of Black military aviators at Alabama’s Tuskegee Army Airfield – a unit now known as the Tuskegee Airmen.

Benjamin O. Davis Jr. was brought in as the new director of operations and training. There were 125 officers under him, all of them white. A small number, mostly from the South, said they would ...

Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. was born Dec. 18, 1912, to the Army's first Black general, Benjamin Davis Sr. and his wife, Elnora. Davis Sr., whose career was hampered by prejudice, taught his son the ...

A committee will explore the best way to honor Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. -- a historic Cleveland military veteran, original Tuskegee Airman and later the city's public safety director. The ...

The Aerospace Professor memoir: Meeting and greeting Tuskegee Airman General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. as a hospital patient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center COLUMBIA, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES ...