Jan 27, 2025 · The Air Force quickly moved to reinstate a course for new recruits, which includes videos on the World War II-era Tuskegee Airmen and Women's Airforce Service Pilots, after the class was pulled ...

Jan 27, 2025 · The U.S. Air Force is announcing the reinstatement of training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen.This follows outcry of the military's removal of the materials to comply with the Trump administration's crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (DEI).. The videos have been shown to Air Force troops as part of DEI courses they took during basic military training.

Jan 25, 2025 · The Tuskegee Airmen were founded in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama, when the U.S. Army Air Corps began a program to train Black servicemembers as Air Corps Cadets, according to the National Park Service.

The Tuskegee Airmen / tʌsˈkiːɡiː / [1] was a group of primarily African American military pilots (fighter and bomber) and airmen who fought in World War II. They formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group (Medium) of the …

Jan 25, 2025 · Tuskegee Airmen, from left, Audley Coulthurst of New York, William Johnson of Glen Cove, N.Y., Wilfred R. DeFour of New York, and Herbert C. Thorpe of Rome, N.Y., are honored by members of the New York Assembly upon their 75th Anniversary of the 332nd Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps during a recognition ceremony in the Assembly Chamber at the state Capitol, June 16, 2016, in Albany, N ...

Jan 26, 2025 · “The Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. (TAI) is disappointed and strongly opposed to the removal of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen’s story from the Air Force’s training courses, as part of a ...

Jan 26, 2025 · The U.S. Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, the more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks in the segregated Army of World War II, an official with the ...

Jan 28, 2025 · Tuskegee Airmen, black servicemen of the U.S. Army Air Forces who trained at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama during World War II. They constituted the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military.

Jan 26, 2025 · The U.S. Air Force said on Sunday it will resume instruction of trainees using a video about the first Black airmen in the U.S. military, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, which has passed review to ...

Those air crew and ground crew personnel associated with black flying units of the Army Air Forces (AAF) during World War II are known as the Tuskegee Airmen. On 16 January 1941, Secretary of the Army Henry L. Stimson authorized the formation of a black pursuit squadron.