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.
Davis c. 1965–1970
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
Freeman Field mutiny
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The Freeman Field mutiny was a series of incidents at Freeman Army Airfield, a United States Army Air Forces base near Seymour, Indiana, in 1945 in which African American members of the 477th Bombardm
Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
…Austria and the Distinguished Flying Cross for a bomber-escort mission to Munich on June 9, 1944. Davis was one of ten officers to preside over the Freeman Field mutiny courts-martial; appointed by General Frank O'Driscoll Hunter. They were: Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr., Captain George L. Knox II, Captain James T…
Arrested African-American officers of the 477th Bombardment Group at Freeman Field, Indiana, await transport to Godman Field, Kentucky, April 1945.
B-25J medium bombers of 380th Bombardment Squadron, 310th Bombardment Group begin their attack run over a target in Northern Italy in late 1944.
Colonel Robert Selway reviews members of the 618th Bombardment Squadron at Atterbury Air Field in Indiana in 1944.
Roger Terry (center) at Tuskegee Army Air Field, Dec 1944.