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.
A Brief History of the Tuskegee Airmen. Like so many others in the late 1930s, the young black Americans who would become known as the Tuskegee Airmen were full of patriotic zeal and eager to serve in the military as the war in Europe and Asia intensified.