Benjamin O. Davis Senior’s career started during a time when society and, more so the military, did not think highly of ...
assigned to U.S. Army Pacific and a native of Lumberton, North Carolina, celebrated his promotion to Chief Warrant Officer 5 Feb. 25 at Fort Shafter, Hawaii. Grice is the first African American to ...
African Americans have evolved in our country. Tuskegee University was awarded an Air Corps contract to help train black ...
Furthermore, the military believed black soldiers were unsuited to serve as officers. Stereotyping and discrimination meant that most African American soldiers were never placed in active combat ...
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Roland E. Brand, 1-57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command • Chief Warrant Officer 2 Zane J. Brandes, 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation ...
A Fort Liberty Army officer convicted last year on federal ... to smuggle weapons to Ghana via a container ship headed to west African nation from Baltimore, authorities said.
A private collection that features over 650 items focusing on African American history and culture including photographs, ...
At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the exhibition Double Victory: The African American Military Experience provides visitors a valuable overview. You can read a story from ...
Two African-American Army sergeants, Cornelius H. Charlton and William Thompson, earned the Medal of Honor. The 1960s marked a major transformation for African-American citizens in the United States.
The Black Hawk that struck an American Airlines flight landing at Reagan airport had three soldiers on board and no VIPs or senior officials were involved.