Indeed, his son, the future general Benjamin O. Davis Jr., graduated from West Point in 1936 and commanded a squadron of Tuskegee Airmen. Davis also mentored future African American officers and ...
was the first Black general in the U.S. Army, promoted in 1940. His son, Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., became the first Black general in the U.S. Air Force in 1954. Their historic achievements broke ...