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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Benjamin O. Davis Jr., a pioneering military officer who led the fabled Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and was the first African American to become a general in the Air Force, has died.

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 ...

LIFE photographed the first class of lieutenants, including leader Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., a West Point graduate whose father had been the Army’s first black general officer. In total ...