The decision has sparked backlash from advocacy groups, particularly Tuskegee Airmen Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the unit's legacy.

as well as video of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) − a paramilitary aviation organization of female pilots employed to fly during World War II − was also pulled from basic training ...

WASHINGTON — The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were ...

Lessons on Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, have also been removed from lesson plans, an official confirmed. The female pilots were vital in transporting new planes bound for fighting in ...

WASHINGTON — The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were ...

The Tuskegee Airmen were founded in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama when the U.S. Army Air Corps began a program to train Black servicemembers as Air Corps Cadets.

The US Air Force will continue to teach about its first black pilots, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, in its basic training, ...

Donald Trump's move to block diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives has led to the US Air Force reviewing material on the role of black and female pilots ... in World War II and beyond ...

FILE - A PT-19 Primary Trainer airplane rests in the hangar at the National WASP (U.S. Army's Women's Airforce Service Pilots) WWII Museum in Sweetwater, Texas, May 12, 2016.

The Tuskegee Airmen, known as the “Red Tails” were the nation's first Black military pilots who served in a segregated WWII unit and their all-Black 332nd Fighter Group had one of the lowest loss ...