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

Tavis Smiley remembers Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the first black air force general and the leader of the famed all-black Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. Davis died on the Fourth of July.

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 ...

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 ...

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.