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JBSA celebrates Black History Month
February 1, 2022
JBSA celebrates Black History Month
Duncan Field, Kelly’s ties to Tuskegee Airmen’s 49+1
February 19, 2021
Wilber Miller, a San Antonio native, was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War I. He also served with the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Regiment on the Mexican border in the early 1920s. In 1935, he was promoted and called upon to select and lead the first African American team of 49 +1 (49 men and one young woman) to a new air depot at Tuskegee Army Air Field, Alabama. Their mission was to provide maintenance and administrative support to Alabama’s African American fighter squadron’s primary training phase on aircraft for the Tuskegee Airmen. (Courtesy photo)
From coal miner’s son to wing commander: African-American Airman led the way
February 28, 2018
In August 1967, Harold Beatty joined the Air Force in Knoxville, Tennessee, and over the next 35 years he made his way from airman basic to colonel, earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees along the way.
JBSA recognizes African American History Month
February 1, 2017
According to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Black History Month dates back to 1915. Carter G. Woodson, founder of the ASALH and Black History Month, chose the month of February for the observance because it includes the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.