Now Commenting On: Blue Jays 2017 schedule. The TORONTO BLUE JAYS will open the home portion of the 2017 Championship Season on Tuesday April 11 at 7:07 pm ET with the commencement of a two-game series vs. the Milwaukee Brewers. The first homestand is an 8-game, 9-day affair that will also feature AL East Division rivals Baltimore Orioles (April 14-16) & Boston Red Sox (April 18-20).
The Tuskegee Airmen were formed in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama. They would serve as the first black members of Americaâs Air Force.Among those enlisted one year later were Retired Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard R. Hall, Jr. and Retired Lieutenant Colonel Bob Hughes â a white man.his group was the 99th Pursuit Squadron and the 332nd Fighter Group. Black college students took notice of the Tuskegee Airmen training program, which graduated 932 pilots. But only 355 would deploy into actual duty as Tuskegee Airmen fighter pilots.
The experiment involved training black pilots and ground support members who originally formed the 99th Pursuit Squadron. The squadron, quickly dubbed the Tuskegee Airmen, was activated on March 22, 1941, and redesignated as the 99th Fighter Squadron on May 15, 1942. For every black pilot there were 10 other black civilian, officer and enlisted men and women on ground support duty.