Benjamin O. Davis Jr. stands next to a P-51C Mustang “By Request” airplane, which he flew during World War II as part of the 99th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group when unit was based in ...

Tavis Smiley remembers Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the first black air force general and the leader of the famed all-black Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. Davis died on the Fourth of July.

On May 22, 1959, Benjamin O. Davis Jr. made history as the first African American to be promoted to Major General in the United States Air Force. Best known for commanding the legendary Tuskegee ...

Benjamin O. Davis Jr. followed in his father’s footsteps to become one of the most storied military commanders of his generation. Explore 80 years ago, nation’s military named its first Black ...

Benjamin O. Davis Jr., a pioneering military officer who led the fabled Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and was the first African American to become a general in the Air Force, has died.

I was a young captain assigned to our Air Force’s Far East headquarters in Tokyo in 1954 when then Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. was brought in as the new director of operations and training.

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., former commander of the Tuskegee Airmen and an alumnus of the University, died July 4 in Washington, D.C. of Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 89. Davis was born in Washington, ...