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Lt. Eugene J. Richardson, Jr., a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, will visit the USS Yorktown today, Oct. 15, for a meet and greet with the public.

In 1941, a new air base at Tuskegee, Alabama, became the center for the training program of Black air personnel. First with the 99th Fighter Squadron and later with the 332nd Fighter Group, African Americans contributed to the war effort, serving in the Mediterranean combat theater, flying from bases in North Africa and Italy while supporting operations against German forces. Later, the USAAF created the 477th Bombardment Group of African American B-25 Mitchell crews, which did not see combat. These were the Tuskegee Airmen.

The 'Father of the Tuskegee Airmen' Led the Fight Against Fascism in Africa Col. John Robinson poses next to Ethiopia's Lion of Judah symbol, which represent Emperor Haile Selassie I. Robinson died in a 1950 plane crash and is buried in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Tigray Online) In 1935, fascism was on the rise in Europe and Asia, but the world had not yet had to fight its territorial expansion on a global scale. Adolf Hitler had been elected as chancellor of Germany just two years prior, and Hideki Tojo was still six years away from bringing the United States into World War II.