Bill > HRes266

This resolution supports the designation of March 27, 2025, as "Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day" to honor the Black military personnel who served in the Army Air Corps from 1941 to 1949, known as the Tuskegee Airmen. The resolution highlights their significant achievements and challenges, including that 992 Tuskegee Airmen graduated flight training, with 450 pilots deployed in combat, flying over 15,000 combat sorties in the European and North African theaters during World War II. Despite facing severe racial discrimination, they earned numerous military honors, including 744 Air Medals, 14 Bronze Stars, and 8 Purple Hearts, and suffered 84 combat fatalities. The Tuskegee Airmen are credited with inspiring civil rights progress, including a non-violent demonstration at Freeman Field that helped lead to President Truman's Executive Order 9981 integrating the Armed Forces. The resolution also notes that four Tuskegee Airmen later became Air Force generals, and they were awarded a Congressional Gold Medal in 2006 for their groundbreaking military service and contributions to social change, with a national historic site established in their honor in 2008.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/266/all-info