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

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 ... In a career that began in the days of segregation, Davis, who was born in the nation’s capital and lived there much of his ...

It was the summer of 1926, and Ben Davis was 14 when his father paid $5 for a barnstorming pilot at Bolling Air Field in Washington to take his son for a ride. By the time the plane landed ...

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 ...

Davis Sr. was born in Washington ... In 1998, President Bill Clinton promoted Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., to the rank of four star general, describing him during the ceremony as “a hero in war ...

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 ...