Benjamin O. Davis Jr. was born Dec. 18 ... "the Negro type has not the proper reflexes to make a first-class fighter pilot," Davis used a combination of political diplomacy and professional ...

It was at Tuskegee that Davis earned his pilot's wings ... He passed away four years later, on July 4, 2002. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. left behind a legacy far greater than his many military ...

His son, Benjamin O. Davis Jr., followed in his footsteps by joining ... Davis Jr. put his dream of becoming a pilot aside and chose to become a military officer by attending West Point.

An animatronic recreation of Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. is shown with a P-51 Mustang behind him at the Air & Space Museum on October 13, 2023. While working at the Pentagon ...

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 ...

Benjamin O. Davis Jr. stands next to a P-51C Mustang “By ... “A lot of them say ‘I just wanted to be a pilot and, you know, the other stuff was sort of extracurricular to me,’ but a ...