“Chappie” was born in Pensacola, Fla., in 1920, the youngest of 17 children. At the age of 17 during World War II he and a number of other Black men went off to college at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. There the young men also trained ...
Selfridge Field
The Air Force’s first African American Airmen helped win World War II, then helped integrate the Armed Forces.