The 99th Flying Training Squadron is a training squadron of the United States Air Force, part of the 12th Flying Training Wing based at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas.
Squadron T-1A Jayhawk
Eight Tuskegee Airmen in front of a P-40 fighter aircraft
1st Lt. Lee Rayford when he returned to the United States from Italy, where he served with the 99th Fighter Squadron. ca. 1941–1945
Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
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Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr. was a United States Air Force general and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen.
99th Flying Training Squadron
…prove that African Americans were of low intelligence and incapable of handling complex situations (such as air combat). The 99th's commander, Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr., forcefully denied the claims, but only the intervention of Colonel Emmett O'Donnell Jr. prevented a recommendation for disbandment of the squadron…
Davis in the United States Military Academy yearbook, 1936
Captain Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr. of Washington, D.C., climbing into an Advanced Trainer (Tuskegee, Alabama; January 1942).
Illustration by Charles Henry Alston