On this day in aviation history-66 years ago, on May 22, 1959-Benjamin O. Davis Jr. became the first African American Major General in the United States Air Force. Best known for commanding the ...

Benjamin O. Davis Jr., the leader of the famed all-black Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and the first black general in the Air Force, has died. Davis, who was 89 and suffered from Alzheimer's ...

I was gratified to read the July 6 obituary of Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., who was in the class of 1936 at West Point. As a cadet in the class of 1938, please allow me to add some points. As a cadet ...

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