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Feb 2, 2024 · Military history in the Davis family. When Davis Jr. died in 2002, his New York Times obituary stated: “When he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1936, the Army had a grand total of two black line officers – Benjamin O. Davis Sr. and Benjamin O. Davis Jr.”. Davis Jr.’s grandfather was a servant in the home of a man who became a ...
Nov 13, 2017 · Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Sr. pins the Distinguished Flying Cross on his son, Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., Italy, May 29, 1944. President Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military in 1948 and by 1956, Davis had risen to the rank of Brigadier General. He was stationed in Taiwan as the Commander responsible for establishing Air Task ...
Dec 10, 1998 · BENJAMIN O. DAVIS JR. RECEIVING HIS FOURTH STAR. JIGGETTS IS A RETIRED BRIGADIER GENERAL. ... who moved to Washington from California this year to help care for Davis and his wife of more than 60 ...
Jul 6, 2002 · July 5, 2002 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., 89, a pioneering military officer who was the leader of the fabled Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and the first African American to ...
Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., was born in Washington, D.C., on July 1, 1877. He entered the military service on July 13, 1898, during the War with Spain as a temporary first lieutenant of the 8th United States Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered out on March 6, 1899, and on June 18, 1899, he enlisted as a private in Troop I, 9th Cavalry, of the ...
Mar 2, 2024 · Air Force General Davis Dies. WASHINGTON – Benjamin O. Davis Jr., the leader of the famed all-black Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and the first black General in the Air Force, has died. Davis, who was 89 and suffered from Alzheimer's disease, died Thursday, July 4, 2002, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., retired in 1970 as a three-star general. His autobiography, capturing the fortitude and spirit with which he and his wife met the pettiness of segregation, bears out Davis’s conviction that discrimination—both within the military and in American society—reflects neither this nation’s ideals nor the best use of ...
