Special Invitations to Obama Inauguration Extended to Legendary Tuskegee Airmen

From the New York Times: "The election of Barack Obama was like a culmination of a struggle that we were going through, wanting to be pilots,” said William M. Wheeler, 85, a retired Tuskegee combat fighter...

Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site To be Dedicated on 10 October 2008

Re-enactors at Moton Field work on the set of a documentary about the military careers and history of the Tuskegee Airmen. The National Park Service will host a ribbon cutting for the Tuskegee Airmen National...

"The Wind Beneath Their Wings"

Stopping by her elderly father's home in West Philly, to look in on him one day in 1995, as was her habit, my sister in law happened to answer the telephone. The man on the other end of the line had been...

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