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.
Willard L. Woods March 30, 1918 – 2002 Class: 43-H-SE Graduation date: 8/30/1943 Rank at time of graduation: 2nd Lt. Unit: 100th Fighter Squadron Service # 0811295 From: Memphis, TN Willard L. Woods and my
Hardy Grant Bennett August 6, 1921 – May 10, 2006 Class: 45-F Bennett G. Hardy was born 6 August 1921 in Kokomo, Indiana to the late Joseph and Eula Hardy. He graduated from Kokomo High
Carla Howard Horowitz May 28, 1922 – February 19, 2018 Class: 44-W-8 Training Location: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Assigned Bases: Blackland Army Air Field (Waco, Tex.) Planes flown: PT-17, BT-13, AT-6, AT-10 “It seemed to
Mary Harriet Nesbit Hearn February 19, 1921 – February 7, 2015 Class: 44-W-5 Training Location: Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) Planes flown: PT-17, BT-13, AT-6 Assigned bases: Marana Army Air Field (Ariz.) “I was absolutely convinced