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  • Remembering Brigadier General Charles McGee

    MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala.— Brig. Gen. Charles McGee was one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen and died at 102 on Jan. 16, 2022. He joined the military at a time when becoming a pilot as an African American was inconceivable.

  • AF Academy names airfield in honor of Tuskegee hero

    Honoring a Tuskegee trailblazer: Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the first African American general in the Air Force, once said, “I could have been a teacher. I could have been a doctor or a lawyer, if I wanted to, but I didn’t – I wanted to be a pilot.”