We have welcomed 135,804 adults and 140,322 youth to the RISE ABOVE Traveling Exhibit since its debut in 2011 to view our film “Rise Above” about the Tuskegee Airmen.
Doris Bristol Tracy March 6, 1920 – July 29, 2010 Class: 43-W-5 Training Location: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Assigned Bases: Bryan Army Air Base (Tex.) Planes flown: BT-13 and AT-6 Doris was born to Marie Todd
Myrtle Rita Allen Carter 1916 – June 10, 1966 Class: 44-W-8 Training Location: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Planes flown: PT-17, BT-13, BT-15 Assigned bases: Greenwood Army Air Base (Greenwood, Miss) Myrtle was born in 1916
Beverly Frisbie Carruth August 2, 1922 – July 19, 2010 Class: 44-W-7 Training Location: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Assigned Bases: Douglas Army Air Base (Ariz.) Planes flown: PT-17, BT-13, BT-14, AT-9, AT-17, AT-6, B-25 Beverly
Herbert Hosea Heywood November 10, 1923 – May 8, 1982 Class: 44-C-SE Graduation date: 3/12/1944 Rank at time of graduation: 2nd Lt. Service # 0824833 From: St. Croix VI Herbert Hosea Heywood was born in