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

I was a young captain assigned to our Air Force’s Far East headquarters in Tokyo in 1954 when then Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. was brought in as the new director of operations and training.

In early 1941, he was a captain when the War Department ... were too stupid,” Davis wrote in his autobiography, “Benjamin O. Davis Jr.: American.” Undeterred, Davis returned to combat ...

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 ...

AP The decision to name the newest barracks at West Point for Benjamin O. Davis Jr. has received scant comment ... where Davis, by then a captain, took command of the unit that would soar into ...

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 ...

His son, Benjamin O. Davis Jr., followed in his footsteps by joining the military and later commanding the famed Tuskegee Airmen. Twenty years after his father made history, Davis Jr. became ...

Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., was the leader of the Tuskegee Airmen. As impressive as the record of those he led ...