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Member of historic black aviation unit, who attended the Obama inauguration in 2009, was almost 101

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first Black pilots in the segregated U.S. military and among the most respected fighter pilots of World War II.

One of the famed Tuskegee Airmen — the first Black pilots in the segregated U.S. military and among the most respected fighter pilots of World War II — has died from complications of the coronavirus, it was announced Friday.

Loading the player... One of the famed Tuskegee Airmen — the first Black pilots in the segregated U.S. military and among the most respected fighter pilots of World War II — has died from complications of the coronavirus, it was announced Friday. Theodore Lumpkin Jr. was just days short of his 101st birthday. Lumpkin, a Los Angeles native, died Dec. 26, according to a statement from Los Angeles City College, which he attended from 1938 to 1940. Lumpkin was drafted in 1942 and assigned to th...

One of the famed Tuskegee Airmen — the first Black pilots in the segregated U.S. military and among the most respected fighter pilots of World War II — has died from complications of the coronavirus, it was announced Friday.

One of the famed Tuskegee Airmen - the first Black pilots in the segregated U.S. military and among the most respected fighter pilots of World War II - has died from complications of the coronavirus, it was announced Friday.

It’s still a deadly plane. Heres What You Need to Remember: If the agile little fighter has any shortcomings, it’s that the American F-16’s radar has fallen out of date, and that the type was never designed to carry a great deal of fuel, limiting its combat radius to just 340 miles on internal stores. The Pentagon should eventually consider reasonable measures to keep that fleet up to date, notably the incorporation of APG-83 AESA radars and the adoption of conformal fuel tanks. The F-16...

Retired Lt. Col. Larry Rendall Brock Jr. was photographed on the Senate floor in combat gear holding zip tie handcuffs.

Tony Pastore, now 96, served his country from 1943 to 1946 as a corporal in the US Air Force. Born in Pittsfield, he enlisted on March 23, 1943, and was sent to Fort Devens in Massachusetts. From there it was on to basic training in Miami Beach, Florida. Corporal Pastore remembered, “We marched all day in the goddamn heat…our platoon was an honor platoon.” He was assigned to the New England Aircraft School in Boston then was sent to Fort Banks in Winthrop, where he came down with...

By Kang Seung-woo Maj. Han Jae-seok, a KF-16 fighter pilot has been named the Air Forces "Top Gun" for 2020 after exhibiting a stellar performance in an annual live-firing contest. According to the Air Force, Wednesday, Han who serves in the 123rd Fighter Squadron of the 20th Fighter Wing earned a score of 965 out of a possible 1,000 from the three sections of the Boramae Aerial Shooting Contest to take the title. The three are an air-to-air strike, an air alert-interdiction and an air-to-grou...