Topic: Tuskegee Airmen

Gen. Charles Q. Brown was officially installed Thursday as the Air Force's 22nd Chief of Staff, becoming the first African American in history to lead a military service as its highest ranking officers.

The U.S. Air Force Academy named its airfield to honor Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, a trailblazer member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen and the Air Force's first black general.

Local television anchor Nancy Parker has died in a crash of a stunt plane in New Orleans along with the pilot, Franklin J.P. Augustus, while covering a story on him.

One of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen -- the historic black fighter squadron during World War II -- has died in California, his family said. He was 99.

One of the surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, an all-black squadron of aviators during World War II, was found dead in his apartment, police said.

Thomas Ellis, one of six surviving Tuskegee Airmen in San Antonio, died of a stroke this month at a local hospital. He was 97.

The oldest living member of the original Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American men to fly for the U.S. military, died last weekend at age 101 in Florida.

On Oct. 27, 1954, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., commander of the 332nd Fighter Group, the Tuskegee Airmen, became the first African-American promoted to the rank of general in the United States Air Force.

World War II veterans, Tuskegee Airmen and lifelong friends Clarence E. Huntley Jr. and Joseph Shambrey died on the same day. Both in the city of Los Angeles.

The four young black girls killed in a 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., are being honored by Congress.