It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...

A Tuskegee Airman from Rochester, NY, Leland had gone MIA while flying a P-51 somewhere over Croatia. That was all I had ...

On June 2, 1943 Lieutenant Charles B. Hall of the Army Air Forces shot down an enemy Italian fighter plane over the island of Pantelleria off the Tunisian Coast. He was the first African American ...

Nicole Collier, who spoke with a replica P-51 Mustang behind her. The fighter bomber was used by the Black military pilots and airmen called the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. “The ...

Brewer is the second of the missing Tuskegee Airmen from World War II to be identified, The Washington Post reported. The first was Capt. Lawrence E. Dickson of New York, who crashed his P-51 in ...

The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum ... was promoted to four-star general. His World War II P-51 Mustang is painted on one of the buildings at Young International.

The unit sometimes was also known as the Tuskegee Airmen for where they trained in Alabama or the Red Tails because of the red tips of their P-51 Mustangs. “I did not recognize at the time the ...

Aldrich Jr. observed. “He planned on going straight to the top.” A P-51 sits at the 187th Fighter Wing annual Tuskegee Airman Legacy Open House, June 2017, at Montgomery Regional Air National ...