A Tuskegee Airman from Rochester, NY, Leland had gone MIA while flying a P-51 somewhere over Croatia. That was all I had ...

The unit was sometimes known as the Tuskegee Airmen for where they trained in Alabama or the Red Tails because of the red tips of their P-51 Mustangs. “I did not recognize at the time the ...

and people of color once worked together to build fighter planes during World War II — a full-scale model of a P-51 Mustang stands on display as a tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed all ...

The Tuskegee Airmen would later earn the nickname “Red Tails” because they painted the tip of their P-51 Mustang bombers red to distinguish themselves from enemy aircraft and avoid friendly fire.

The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum ... was promoted to four-star general. His World War II P-51 Mustang is painted on one of the buildings at Young International.

Like the Tuskegee Airmen, he persevered in the face ... At the same time, I re-launched the P-51 ‘Lucy Gal' project as the Pennington Flight Memorial. It was time to pick up where I left off ...