FORT DETRICK, Md. -- With a grandfather who worked on planes in the Army Air Corps during World War II, Aaron Widner already had a pedigree of service in the maintenance field. Add in his ...
He was 100. Stewart was one of two surviving combat pilots from the World War II-era 332nd Fighter Group, a segregated all-Black wing of the United States Army Air Force. “We are deeply saddened ...
The videos were shown to Air Force troops as part of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) courses they took during basic military training.
His only living sister, Margery Wong of San Francisco, along with her family, will welcome him back to the S.F. Bay Area," San Francisco police ... World War II Victory Medal, U.S. Army Air ...
Harry Stewart Jr. recorded three victories in one day and won the first-ever 'Top Gun' contest for military pilots.
The Tuskegee Airmen were founded in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama when the U.S. Army Air Corps began a program to train Black ...
U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Yuen Hop, killed during World War II, was unaccounted for. On Friday, his remains, located and identified in June, were flown to the Bay Area. Hop, of Sebastopol, was a ...
After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined ... forwarded along to the Army, Army Air Force or Navy.
This week, they highlight the service of Staff Sergeant Harvey Gann, who served in the U.S. Army ... in World War II. After arriving in Europe, he served in Italy with the 15th Air Force’s ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- After 80 years of uncertainty, a 93-year-old San Francisco woman is overwhelmed and in awe as her brother, a World War II airman ... pretty bad." Army Air Force Sgt.
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 ...
An instructional film that depicts the World War II Black aviators as proof that diversity strengthens the military is not back in classroom use.