There are 60 Black fighter pilots in the Air Force, or 2 percent of the community. Navy data show 15 Black pilots out of 1,124, about 1.3 percent. Those figures could be higher, ...

E ugene Bullard survived some of the deadliest battles in military history, became the world’s first Black fighter pilot, and even had his own monkey sidekick—and all before the age of 30.He ...

In her book "Small Town, Big Secrets," historian Sally J. Ling shares how 28 Black cadets came to Boca Raton to be trained on radar, some of whom would become Tuskegee Airmen.

It was just a sunny afternoon flight in a yellow Piper Cub. For pilot Charles Alfred “Chief” Anderson, the flight itself was ...

Brig. Gen. John Gallemore, who has logged more than 4,300 flight hours in the F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-15E Strike Eagle, T-38 Talon and T-37 Tweet, took over the 18th Wing from Brig. Gen. Nicholas ...

But the Black pilots — and Black Americans — still faced headwinds. Davis, who became the 332nd Fighter group’s commander, challenged efforts to block Black pilots in combat.

Members of the “Black Eagles,” the first Black fighter pilots to serve in the U.S. Army Air Corps, display awards they received in Chicago on Feb. 16, 1983, from the U.S. Customs Service north ...

Tuskegee Airmen pilots of the all-Black 332 Fighter Group, of which the 99th Fighter Squadron was a part, would fly more than 15,500 sorties and more than 1,500 missions in the skies over Germany ...

Eugene Bullard survived some of the deadliest battles in military history, became the world’s first Black fighter pilot, and even had his own monkey sidekick—and all before the age of 30.He ...