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Retired Col. Merryl Tengesdal: First and Only African American Woman to Fly the U-2
In this 2020 video, Retired Col. Merryl Tengesdal, the first and only African American woman to fly the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, shares her journey from Navy pilot to Air Force pioneer. She ...
Obeying Trump DEI order, Air Force will stop teaching recruits about Tuskegee Airmen
A video on the pioneering Black pilots, famed for their World War II exploits, was stripped from an Air Force basic training curriculum this week.
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Race and the Army During World War II
When the U.S. military decided to assign three African American engineering regiments ... During World War II, the United States Air Force began training African Americans to be pilots.
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African-Americans In Combat
Some African-Americans were trained in elite positions never offered previously, such as the Air Force, and some units ... their share of the population. In general African-Americans account ...
After uproar, Air Force says recruits will again be taught about Tuskegee Airmen
After provoking an uproar by shutting down a course that included instruction on the famed Tuskegee Airmen and a unit of pioneering female aviators, the Air Force said the subject matter would be ...
'This will not stand': Air Force resumes teaching on first Black pilots after DEI review
The move is a complete reversal of the Air Force's decision to no longer teach the history of the first Black and women pilots of WWII ...