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After listening to the appeals of black pilots unable to enter the military, Senator Harry S. Truman sponsors a bill to create the Civilian Pilot Training Program.
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The Tuskegee Airmen boarded the S.S. Mariposa, which would take them Casablanca, Morocco.
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United States enters WWII
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First class of black pilots trained at Tuskegee Institure earn their wings from the Army Air Corps.
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Black fighter squadrons see combat in Europe.
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Germany and Japan surrender, ending World War II.
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President Harry S. Truman enacts an executive order to begin desegregation of the armed forces of the United States.
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Benjamin O. Davis Jr. earns the rank of four-star general; Congress creates the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic SIte at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama.
