Category: Profiles of Tuskegee Airmen

George Porter

George Wyatt Porter Sept. 19, 1921- February 9, 2013 Tuskegee Airman George Porter said the success of him and his comrades was due to hard

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Maurice Pompey

Maurice Dale Pompey, Sr. May 14, 1923 – August 14, 2002 Class: 44-G-TE Graduation date: 8/4/1944 Rank at time of graduation: Flt. Officer Unit: 618th

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Alfonso Ramos

Alfonso Ramos June 22, 1924 – November 27, 2007 Unit: 332nd Fighter Group In 1942 Alfonso Ramos enlisted in the Army Air Corps. He was

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Homer Hogues

Homer Hogues April 19, 1927 – June 27, 2023 Born in Navasota, Texas, in 1927, Hogues enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1946 at

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Robert A. Cole

Robert Arthur Cole March 2, 1920 – August 19, 1968 Class: 44-J-SE Flt. Officer Graduation date: 12/28/1944 Rank at time of graduation: Flt. Officer Service

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Harold J. Beaulieu

Harold J. Beaulieu Unit:  617th and 619th Bomb Squadrons of the 477th Composite Group as a Photography Laboratory Technician (945). Beaulieu ran the photography lab at

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Roscoe J. Dabney Jr.

Roscoe J. Dabney Jr. December 28, 1922 – September 8, 2018 Class: 45-F-TE Graduation date: 9/8/1945 Unit: 477th Bombardment Group Service # 0843244 Roscoe J.

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Wilfred DeFour

Wilfred DeFour April 12, 1918 – December 8, 2018 Wilfred DeFour was an aircraft technician and member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African

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Vance H. Marchbanks

Dr. Vance H. Marchbanks, Jr January 12, 1905  – October 21, 1988 The movie “Hidden Figures” was about three African American women who were very

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