Their target is the wreckage of a World War II-era fighter plane flown by a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen that crashed during training nearly 80 years ago near Port Huron, about 60 miles (96 ...

DETROIT (AP) — A team of divers have been trolling the deep, cold waters of Lake Huron off Michigan’s Thumb for several weeks each of the past few years searching for scattered pieces of ...

Vincent D. Jackson was floored Wednesday as he approached his longtime hero and one of the few surviving Tuskegee Airmen: William T. Fauntroy Jr. The decorated airman, who was also the first Black ...

It is important to note that at the time African-American pilots trained at Tuskegee, the military was still completely segregated, which means the pilots' planes serviced by African-American ...

The first class of five Tuskegee pilots graduated in March 1942, three months after Pearl Harbor. The Airmen manned both fighter planes and bombers. Their 332nd Fighter Group was commanded by West ...

The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum in Detroit teaches how to fly planes. The museum aims to prepare new generations of aviators, and remember a fading one. Surrounded by vintage ...

In April 1944, a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen, Second Lieutenant Frank Moody, was on a routine training mission when his plane malfunctioned. Moody lost control of the aircraft and plunged to ...

The body of Tuskegee Airman Lt. Frank H. Moody, who was piloting the aircraft, has also been recovered. The crash happened during a training mission. RELATED: Explore Great Lakes shipwrecks with ...

He was also one of four Tuskegee airman to record three air-to-air kills on a single mission day — two of which he finished with his planes’ machine guns while recording the third through ...

BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — The nationally known traveling exhibit "Rise Above Tuskegee Airmen" is coming to Tri-Cities Airport in September thanks to a local non-profit. Trump makes statement ...

TUSKEGEE, Ala. (WSFA ... engineering program while still getting the certifications needed to fly planes. “It’s like a roller coaster on steroids,” said Tuskegee University Air Force ...