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Celebrities having birthdays during the week of June 22-28 include “Lady Bird” actor Beanie Feldstein, former “American Idol” ...
HE IS ALSO A DESCENDANT OF GENERAL BENJAMIN O. DAVIS, JR, WHO WAS COMMANDER OF THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN. CELEBRATES ON THURSDAY. INCLUDE GUEST OF HONOR, PILOT, NAVIGATOR AND BOMBARDIER. 102 YEAR OLD ...
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It features Lieutenant General Benjamin O. Davis Jr., who reflects on his career and the significance of the all-Black fighter and bombardment groups he commanded during World War II. The ...
DECATUR — Decatur native Ellsworth Dansby Jr. was not only an accomplished pilot and one of the Tuskegee ... Another Tuskegee Airman, Benjamin O. Davis Jr., and a friend of Dansby Jr., was ...
Pictured are, from left, Commanding Officer Lt Col Benjamin O Davis Jr (1912 - 2002), Capt Hayden ... but perhaps even superior to their white pilot counterparts. A radical thought at the time ...
At the time, the position of Special Assistant to the Secretary of Transportation was held by former Lieutenant General Benjamin O. Davis Jr. President Nixon selected him for that post ...
Toni Frissell, Library of Congress // No Known Restrictions on Publication Robert Friend served as a wingman for Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. during WWII. He went on to direct Project Blue Book ...
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 ...
Like General Benjamin O. Davis Jr., dad had to endure the silence of his classmates for all four years at the Point – nobody would speak to him except for official tasks. He was isolated ...