On this day in aviation history-66 years ago, on May 22, 1959-Benjamin O. Davis Jr. became the first African American Major General in the United States Air Force. Best known for commanding the ...

Benjamin O. Davis Jr. was born Dec. 18 ... Davis Jr. grew up to become an Air Force general, and days before his 86th birthday, he was awarded his fourth star by President Bill Clinton on Dec ...

Tavis Smiley remembers Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the first black air force general and the leader of the famed all-black Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. Davis died on the Fourth of July.

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. 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 ...