The ceremony included multiple tributes to the pioneering Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, for whom the T-7 is named, and was attended by a surviving member and another pilot's children.
A Missouri man who was unable to finish high school but went on to serve as crew chief for the famed Tuskegee Airmen has received an honorary diploma nearly 80 years after leaving high school.
Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. eventually became a Tuskegee Airman and the Air Force’s first black general, but when he was just a cadet in 1932 at the United States Military Academy, no one wanted to be his roommate, let alone be his friend or speak to him unless absolutely necessary.
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