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Daniel "Chappie" James Jr., the Air Force's first African-American four-star general


Gen. Daniel "Chappie" James Jr.

Daniel "Chappie" James Jr., the Air Force's first African-American four-star general

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Lt. Col. (ret.) James Warren, Senator Lois Wolk, Aubrey Matthews and Edith Roberts proudly present the Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Highway sign that will be displayed on Interstate 80 Feb. 6 at the Veterans Hall in Dixon, Ca. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Madelyn Brown)
An Airman goes over airfield communication techniques during training at the start of World War II. By the end of the war, more than 17,000 African American Airmen had been trained at Tuskegee, Ala.
Eleanor Roosevelt and “Chief” Charles Alfred Anderson in 1941. Roosevelt convinced the Rosenwald Fund to expand the pilot training program at Tuskegee. Early in the year, Roosevelt visited the Tuskegee Institute's Moton Airfield, asking the chief flight instructor,
Capt. Charles B. Hall (left), the first Tuskegee Airman to shoot down an enemy plane, is congratulated by Maj. Gen. John Kenneth Cannon. (U.S. Air Force photo)
Graduation day at Tuskegee Army Airfield, Ala. The school produced 992 pilots during World War II. (U.S. Air Force photo)
Advanced instruction turned student pilots into fighter pilots at Tuskegee Army Airfield, Ala. (U.S. Air Force photo)
Pilot trainees get physical instruction at Tuskegee Army Air Field. (U.S. Air Force photo)
Armorers and other ground personnel were trained at Chanute Field, Ill. (U.S. Air Force photo)
An armorer of the 15th U.S. Air Force checks ammunition belts of the .50 caliber machine guns in the wings of a P-51 Mustang fighter plane before it leaves an Italian base for a mission against German military targets. The 15th Air Force was organized for long range assault missions and its fighters and bombers range over enemy targets in occupied and satellite nations as well as Germany itself. Ca. September 1944. (National Archives photo no. 208-MO-18H-32984)
Lt. Andrew D. Marshall, a pilot in a Negro fighter group of the Mediterranean Allied Air Force had his plane shot up by flak during a strafing mission over Greece before the Allied invasion. When he came down, all that was left of the plane was his engine and himself, but he only suffered some bruises and cuts. Greeks hid him from the Nazis, then directed him to the British forces when they parachuted into Greece. Here, Lt. Marshall tells an American pilot of the 51st Troop Carrier Wing of his harrowing experience. ca. October 1944. (National Archives photo no. 208-AA-102E-5)
Fliers of a P-51 Mustang Group of the 15th Air Force in Italy
Members of the 99th Fighter Squadron of the Army Air Forces, the famous all-Negro outfit, who are rapidly making themselves feared by enemy pilots, pose for a picture at the Anzio beachhead. In the foreground, head bared, is 1st Lt. Andrew Lane. Ca. February 1944. (Courtesy National Archives photo no. 80-G-54413)