 
Tuskegee Airmen
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, "Chief" Charles A. Anderson if he would take her flying. Despite extreme objections from the Secret Service, Roosevelt spent more than an hour flying over the Tuskegee airfield, which was possibly the first time a black man had ever flown a plane with a white woman as his passenger. (Air Force Historical Research Agency photo)
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Posted: 2/11/2013
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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)
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Posted: 2/11/2013
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Graduation day at Tuskegee Army Airfield, Ala. The school produced 992 pilots during World War II. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Posted: 2/11/2013
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Advanced instruction turned student pilots into fighter pilots at Tuskegee Army Airfield, Ala. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Pilot trainees get physical instruction at Tuskegee Army Air Field. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Armorers and other ground personnel were trained at Chanute Field, Ill. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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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)
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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)
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Fliers of a P-51 Mustang Group of the 15th Air Force in Italy "shoot the breeze" in the shadow of one of the Mustangs they fly. Left to right: Lt. Dempsey W. Morgan Jr., Lt. Carroll S. Woods, Lt. Robert H. Nelson Jr., Capt. Andrew D. Turner and Lt. Clarence P. Lester. Ca. August 1944. (Courtesy National Archives photo no. 208-NP-6XXX)
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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)
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Academy grads leave legacy of diversity
Capt. Lance P. Sijan, Medal of Honor recipient, and Fletcher Wiley were two U.S. Air Force Academy cadets and star athletes who lived diversity during a time when the civil rights movement was in its early stages. (Courtesy photos)
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Posted: 2/4/2013
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Nichelle Nichols
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura on the original Star Trek did much to recruit African-Americans into the NASA space program
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Posted: 2/27/2012
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Nichelle Nichols
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura on the original Star Trek did much to recruit African-Americans into the NASA space program
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Posted: 2/27/2012
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CMSAF Thomas Barnes
CMSAF Thomas Barnes, first African-American to hold top Air Force enlisted position
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Posted: 2/26/2012
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Maj. Gen. Alfred K. Flowers
Maj. Gen. Alfred K. Flowers with chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen
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Posted: 2/25/2012
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Maj. Gen. Alfred K. Flowers
Maj. Gen. Alfred K. Flowers, longest serving Airman and longest serving African-American service member in DoD.
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Posted: 2/25/2012
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Maj. Gen. Alfred K. Flowers
Alfred K. Flowers spent 13 years as enlisted before going on to retire as a major general after 46 years of service.
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Posted: 2/25/2012
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