11 Apr 1941

United States
  • US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, ignoring the protests from her security detail, took a flight at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, United States as a passenger to African American pilot C. Alfred Anderson, Sr. This flight was later named "The Flight That Changed History" for it exhibited Roosevelt's confidence in the abilities of black pilots. ww2dbase [Eleanor Roosevelt | C. Alfred Anderson | Tuskegee, Alabama | CPC]
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Pilot C. Alfred Anderson and passenger US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Tuskegee, Alabama, United States, 11 Apr 1941
30 Jun 1943

United States
12 Mar 1944

United States
  • Roscoe Brown, Jr. graduated from the Tuskegee Flight School at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, United States. ww2dbase [Roscoe Brown | Tuskegee, Alabama | CPC]
13 Apr 1996

United States

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