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The Tale of the Tuskegee Airmen Is Told in a New Documentary
Time via AOL· 1 day agoRoosevelt famously traveled to Tuskegee to be photographed in a plane with an African American ...
Roy S. Johnson: On D-Day 80 years ago, Black heroes stormed the shores, too
Birmingham News· 7 hours agoThe near-three-month World War II campaign under Gen. (and future President) Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Mother of gunned down Airman says she keeps ‘hoping it’s a dream’
WSB Cox articles via Yahoo News· 3 days agoChannel 2′s Tyisha Fernandes spoke one-on-one Monday with the airman’s mother, Meka Fortson She told...
The last WWII vets converge on Normandy for D-Day
The Gazette· 8 hours agoUnder their feet, the sands of Omaha Beach, and in their rheumy eyes, tears that inevitably flowed from being on the revered shoreline in Normandy,...
Florida deputy who shot Black airman is fired from his job
Washington Post· 6 days agoThe Florida deputy who killed a Black Air Force airman in his apartment was fired from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office on Friday, after an internal ...
Centenarian veterans are sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years later
Seattle Times· 2 days ago“I am the luckiest man in the world,” D-Day veteran Jake Larson, a 101-year-old American best known...
Film highlights finding of Tuskegee airman's plane 70 years after crash in Lake Huron
Detroit News· 2 days agoA World War II plane piloted by a Tuskegee Airman went down in 1944 in Lake Huron, and until a dive...
Working for Well-Being | American Libraries Magazine
American Libraries Magazine· 3 days agoOver the past decade, mental health support in libraries has grown more inventive, specific, and widespread. American Libraries spoke with workers from...
AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EDT
The Joplin Globe· 6 days agoDonald Trump sought to move past his historic criminal conviction on Friday and build momentum for his bid to return to the White House with fierce attacks on the judge who oversaw the case, ...
How an Aggieville watering hole saved the life of a downed Airman
St. Joseph News-Press· 7 days agoHaving achieved acclaim in the ranks after re-upping for his third tour in Vietnam — ending that tour with 407 career missions — Locher became one of the most prolific MIG killers of the war ...