The WASPs risked their lives flying for the Army. But for decades, the U.S. government refused to recognize their military ...
During World War II, German fighter pilots entered combat expecting American airmen to be inexperienced and fragile. This documentary explores how those assumptions changed through relentless bomber ...
Lt. Col. George Hardy, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen and the last of the group’s World War II combat pilots, died Tuesday night, according to Tuskegee Airmen Inc. He was 100 years old. “His ...
The Tuskegee Airmen are now celebrated as true American heroes. These Black men fought in World War II for a country still brutally segregated that treated them as less than full citizens. Later, ...
Reginald Harrison didn’t have a nickname when he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943. But after crashing his plane a second time trying to liftoff for a mission in 1944, fellow pilots started ...