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

Benjamin O. Davis Jr., a pioneering military officer who led the fabled Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and was the first African American to become a general in the Air Force, has died.

Davis Jr. broke the color barrier in the upper echelons of the nation’s military for only the second time in the nation’s history. The first to do it was his father, Benjamin O. Davis Sr., ...

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. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...