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.
Ann E. Cawley O’Connor July 20, 1922 – September 20, 2009 Class: 44-W-7 Training Location: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Assigned Bases: Stockton Army Air Base (Calif.) Planes flown: PT-17, BT-13, AT-6, AT-11, UC-78 Ann was
M. Winfred Wood 1919 – August 6, 2009 Class: 43-W-7 Training Location: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Assigned Bases: Mather Army Air Base (Sacramento, Calif.) and Biggs Army Air Field (El Paso, Tex.) Planes flown: AT-7,
John L. Harrison Jr December 14, 1920 – March 22, 2017 Class: 43-K-TE Graduation date: 12/5/1943 Rank at time of graduation: 2nd Lt. Service # 0817600 From: Omaha, NE “We were Americans, we were young,
2LT Littleton Purnell Mitchell Nov 26, 1918 – July 6, 2009 From: Milford, Kent County, Delaware, USA Littleton Purnell Mitchell, known as “Lit,” was born on November 27, 1918, in Milford, Delaware. He attended the