Class SE-42-F Left to Right: William A. Campbell, Willie Ashley, Langston Caldwell, Hebert V. Clark, George R. Bolling, Charles B. Hall, Paul Graham Mitchell, Herbert

Class SE-42-E Top: Lee Rayford and George Knox. Bottom: James Knighten and Sherman White Photo courtesy U.S. Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, Alabama

Class SE-42-D order unknown, Sidney Brooks, Charles Dryden, Clarence Jaminson Photo courtesy U.S. Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, Alabama

Hand color tinted photo of The Tuskegee Airmen, WWII 1942 Army Air Corps flight instructor pilot at Tuskegee Army Air Field, Tuskegee, AL in 1942 with

Class 42-C-SE 3/6/1942 Members of the first graduating class names Left to right: Captain B.O. Davis. Jr., 2nd Lt Lemuel R. Custis, 2nd Lt George

Enjoy these photos submitted by Dr. Harold Brown, they are also featured in his book “Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman”

March 18-23, 1944 eruption of Italy’s big volcano, Mount Vesuvius. These photos were taken by Eddie Little of the 489th Bombardment Squadron, the 340th Bombardment Group. 

On 22 March 1941, the first all-black fighter squadron was activated at Chanute Field, Illinois. Formed without pilots with the purpose of training the officer

On Oct. 13, 1944, Westmoreland’s plane was shot down by enemy ground fire near Lake Balaton, Hungary, while returning from an escort mission to Blechhammer, Germany. First

Lt. Clarence P. “Lucky” Lester, seated in the cockpit of his North American P-51C Mustang “Miss Pelt” (s/n 42-103956), points out a spot on the