FORT DETRICK, Md. -- With a grandfather who worked on planes in the Army Air Corps during World War II, Aaron Widner already had a pedigree of service in the maintenance field. Add in his ...

As he flew on his missions, he would even write in the Bible if on his way to where they were going or on their way back, and ...

The Air Force is defining a “gig line” as part of a wider effort to make standards clearer and easier to comply with.

The U.S. Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, the more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks in the segregated Army of World War II, an official with the ...

Harry Stewart Jr. was one of the legendary flying corps’ most decorated pilots during the WWII, having claimed three Nazi ...

He was 100. Stewart was one of two surviving combat pilots from the World War II-era 332nd Fighter Group, a segregated all-Black wing of the United States Army Air Force. “We are deeply saddened ...

After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined ... forwarded along to the Army, Army Air Force or Navy.

On this day in aviation history, January 20, 1941, the Brazilian Air Force (Portuguese: Força Aérea Brasileira, FAB) was formally established. Like many air forces around the world, the FAB developed ...

The first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps following ... deployed to North Africa and Europe during World War II. It was in the Air Force that she met Reserve Capt.

The move is a complete reversal of the Air Force's decision to no longer teach the history of the first Black and women pilots of WWII ...

Vernon Baker is among the seven Black American troops to receive the Medal of Honor for their actions during WWII. (DOD ... Baker tried enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1941, but the recruiter ...