Baham Goldsborough Hawaii Chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc.

12/06/2017

10/31/2017

Scholarships applications are here Airmen Scholarship Foundation !!!!
Please see https://www.taisf.org to found out how to apply!! (Find your nearest local TAI Chapter for additional details)
They are giving away (40) 1,500 scholarships to eligible H.S Seniors.
You are a HI Resident Message us to get your application!
Good Luck!

10/27/2017

2017 STEM Scholarship Winners

10/04/2017

Happy Tuesday!

4 October 1944: The 332nd Fighter Group took part in three missions, two to
es**rt C-47 transport aircraft to Sofia, Bulgaria and Bucharest, Rumania, and
one to strafe targets in Tatoi, Kalamaki, and Eleusis, Greece. In Greece, the
group reported destroying 9 enemy aircraft on the ground. Captains Erwin B.
Lawrence and Kenneth I. Williams, both of the 99th Fighter Squadron, were
reported lost or missing in the Athens area on the mission to Greece. (332nd
Fighter Group mission reports numbered 86, 87, and 88; Missing Air Crew
Reports 8981 and 8982). For their heroic actions on this date, the following
five members of the 332nd Fighter Group each earned the Distinguished Flying
Cross:
1st Lt.
Samuel L. Curtis (100th Fighter Squadron); 1st Lt. Dempsey Morgan (100th
Fighter Squadron); Capt. Claude B. Govan (301st Fighter Squadron); 1st Lt.
Herman A. Lawson (99th Fighter Squadron); 1st Lt. Willard L. Woods (100th
Fighter Squadron). (Fifteenth Air Force General Order 158 dated 10 Jan 1945;
Fifteenth Air Force General Order 231 dated 15 Jan 1945; Fifteenth Air Force
General Order 255 dated 16 Jan 1945; Fifteenth Air Force General Order 449
dated 31 Jan 1945).

(The above information was taken from the current "Tuskegee Airmen
Chronology," written by Daniel L. Haulman, PhD, Chief, Organization History
Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency)
Jivaro Johnson

09/22/2017

Scholarships applications are here Airmen Scholarship Foundation !!!!
Please see https://www.taisf.org to found out how to apply!! (Find your nearest local TAI Chapter for additional details)
They are giving away (40) 1,500 scholarships to eligible H.S Seniors.
You are a HI Resident Message us to get your application!
Good Luck!

2017 STEM Scholarship Winners

09/22/2017

Amazing!

The Morris Heights post office in the Bronx now bears the name of late Tuskegee Airman and Bronx Community College President Dr. Roscoe C. Brown Jr.

09/07/2017

Greetings!! On this date, the following Tuskegee Airmen events occurred:

6 September 1942: The sixth class of African-American pilots graduated from
flying training at Tuskegee Army Air Field. (99th Fighter Squadron history,
Mar 1941-Oct 1943). It was class SE-42-I, and there were nine graduates.

6-15 September 1943: Col. William T. Colman, a white officer who had commanded
Selfridge Field from 23 April 1942 to 5 May 1943, was tried in a court
martial. The most serious of several charges against him was assault with
intent to do bodily harm against Private First Class Willie McRae, an African
American driver whom Colman had shot and wounded when McRae arrived to provide
him transportation at 1:10 in the morning of 5 May. Colman was convicted on a
lesser charge of carelessly discharging a pistol. (History of Selfridge Field,
Michigan, 1943, AFHRA call number 288.52-3, pp. 153-155).

6 September 1944: The 332nd Fighter Group es**rted B-17s of the 5th
Bombardment Wing for a second day in a row, but this time to the Oradea Main
marshalling yards in Rumania (332nd Fighter Group mission report number 75).

(The above information was taken from the current "Tuskegee Airmen
Chronology," written by Daniel L. Haulman, PhD, Chief, Organization History
Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency)

Jivaro Johnson

08/07/2017

Greetings!! On this date, the following Tuskegee Airmen events occurred:

7 August 1943: Tuskegee Army Air Field celebrated its second anniversary, a day after the actual anniversary. Lt. Col. Noel Parrish gave a speech and base band performed in Hangar no. 3, and the P-40 and advanced trainer aircraft were placed on display near the “broad sun-bathed runways.” (Hawk’s Cry, vol. II, no. 24, dated 13-14 Aug 1943).

7 August 1944: The 332nd Fighter Group es**rted B-24s of the 55th Bombardment Wing and B-17s of the 5th Bombardment Wing to raid enemy oil refineries at Blechhammer. One Me-109 dove through the bombers during the raid. Bombers were shot down that day, but after the 332nd Fighter Group had finished es**rting them (332nd Fighter Group mission report number 46 and Missing Air Crew Reports for 7 August 1944). Lt. Alfred Gorham of the 301st Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group, got lost
while returning from the Blechhammer mission. After dark, he attempted to land at Lesina Airfield, home of the 325th Fighter Group not far from Ramitelli, but the field was not equipped with airfield lights. Gorham undershot the runway and crashed into Lake Lesina. The P-51 caught fire when it hit the water, but Gorham survived. (Aircraft accident report 45-8-7-527 at Air Force Historical Research Agency)

7 August 1945: Pilots assigned to the 99th Fighter Squadron flew their final mission in Italy. (Craig Huntly)

(The above information was taken from the current "Tuskegee Airmen Chronology," written by Daniel L. Haulman, PhD, Chief, Organization History Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency)

Jivaro Johnson

08/02/2017

Registration Today, Kick-off tomorrow... Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. National Office
Orlando FL 2017

07/28/2017

This is something you don't want to miss!! Message me if you have questions!

We are excited about the upcoming TAI National Convention. As you finalize your itinerary, we wish you safe travels. Go to www.taiconvention.com for convention details.

07/10/2017

Greetings!! On this date, the following Tuskegee Airmen events occurred:

10 July 1943: During the invasion of Sicily, the 99th Fighter Squadron covered the landing of Allied troops at Licata. (99th Fighter Squadron history, Mar-Oct 1943)

10 July 1944: Captain Mac Ross, who was one of the first five Tuskegee Airmen pilots, in the first graduating class at Tuskegee Army Air Field, and who had been the 332nd Fighter Group operations officer, was killed in a crash while on a local transition flight during the squadron’s conversion from
P-40 to P-51 aircraft. Captain Alfonza Davis replaced Ross as group operations officer. (332nd Fighter Group history for July 1944)

(The above information was taken from the current "Tuskegee Airmen Chronology," written by Daniel L. Haulman, PhD, Chief, Organization History Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency)

Jivaro

06/18/2017

Happy Father's Day! On this date, the following Tuskegee Airmen events occurred:

18 June 1941: A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White
House in Washington, D.C.. They discussed what the federal government could do to increase opportunities for black people in the armed services and defense industries, since the nation was becoming the “arsenal of democracy.” Randolph had threatened to lead at least 10,000 blacks in a March on Washington, which he had announced on 15 January and
scheduled for the summer. Reporting Civil Rights (New York: The Library of America, 2003), p. 897.

18 June 1943: The 99th Fighter Squadron encountered enemy aircraft for the second time, and 1st Lieutenant Lee Rayford’s P-40 was hit several times. (99th Fighter Squadron history, Mar 1941-Oct 1943)

(The above information was taken from the current "Tuskegee Airmen Chronology," written by Daniel L. Haulman, PhD, Chief, Organization History Division, Air Force Historical Research Agency)

Jivaro