The oldest continuously operating airport in the Los Angeles Basin, Compton-Woodley Airport celebrated its Centennial on Saturday, Oct. 26, with an Air Fair, presented by Los Angeles County Public Works.
Jerry T., a documented original Tuskegee Airmen pilot, CPA, and member of fraternity Omega Psi Phi, turned 99 years old on June 29. By all account, he is a man for all seasons – academic, military, professional, and cultural.
Raymond Cassagnol, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed group of Black military aviators during World War II, died at age 102 on June 24 in Florida, according his daughter, Dominique Cassagnol Ballacchino.
Lt. Col Enoch Woody Woodhouse, Jr., one of the last members of the all-Black World War II fighter pilot unit known as the Tuskegee Airmen, is honored with an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Norwich University during their 2023 Commencement Ceremony. The ceremony was held on Saturday, April 29, 2023, in Northfield, Vt.
Reginald Ballard, Sr.
Brigadier General Charles Edward McGee, one of the last living Tuskegee Airmen, turns 101-year-old, where he celebrated in Bethesda Maryland, waving the American flag as well-wishers drove by while some celebrated, cheering from a distance. The event even had a surprise fly-over of a P-51 aircraft, the same plane he flew in the war.
Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee joins the LA Sentinel
Brigadier General Charles Edward McGee had for years wanted to make it to the west coast. It never happened during his career in aviation but recently, he made one of many visits back here (post career) and landed at the Los Angeles Sentinel. McGee, one of the last living Tuskegee Airmen who on February 5 received his new title in the Oval Office, talked to the Sentinel about what his career has meant to him and how it is significant for today’s youth.
The members of the nation’s first black fighter squadron won acclaim for their aerial prowess and bravery, despite a military that imposed segregation on its African-American recruits while respecting the rights of German prisoners.
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City man who served as an aircraft technician with the famed all-black Tuskegee Airmen died Saturday at age 100. Police say a home health aide found Wilfred DeFour unconscious and unresponsive inside his Harlem apartment at about 9 a.m. DeFour was pronounced dead by Emergency Medical Service workers. Police say he appears to have died from natural causes but the medical examiner’s office will perform an autopsy. DeFour was honored just last month at a ceremony to rename a Manhattan post office after the Tuskegee Airmen. The Daily News reported that Defour said at the
Known as the ‘man behind the man’, Adams was instrumental in Charles’ rise as a cultural icon.
The Tuskegee Airmen Experience began with the first aviation class of 13 cadets on July 19, 1941
The Tuskegee Airmen refers to pilots, bombardiers, maintenance and other support staff who trained as a segregated unit at an air base in Tuskegee, Alabama
Walter Crenshaw, Jr. served as an Administrative Assistant to the Provost Marshall at Tuskegee Army Air Field