WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- About 330 Tuskegee Airmen, the all-black force of elite World War II U.S. pilots, have been invited to the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration, officials say.
TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, who flew with the Tuskegee Airmen in the U.S. Army Air Force, has died at the age of 82.
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama says his background in civil rights and community organizing makes him more aware of black issues than his rivals.
WASHINGTON, March 29 (UPI) -- Surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest U.S. civilian honor, Thursday in a Washington ceremony.
WASHINGTON, March 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. Congress will award the Tuskegee airmen the Congressional Gold Medal, 60 years after they flew for their country as it first black pilots.
DETROIT, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Two U.S. historians are disputing the claim that the Tuskegee Airmen black fighter pilots never lost a bomber to enemy aircraft fire during World War II.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. Congress has announced it will award the Congressional Gold Medal to the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of black fighter pilots who served in World War II.
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- The U.S. Air Force plans to cut 3,530 active-duty positions in Europe within two years as part of a service-wide plan to trim thousands of airmen worldwide.
NEW YORK, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- A spokesman for a New York congressman said design revisions are behind delays in giving Congress' highest honor to the surviving World War II Tuskegee airmen.
SARASOTA, Fla., July 18 (UPI) -- Maury Reid, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen who was kept out of combat by a training injury, has died at the age of 81 at his home in Florida.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 24 (UPI) -- Pompey Hawkins, one of the members of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, died in Indianapolis at age 91.
