Sentences with phrase «american airmen»

The gunman allegedly saw an online video which upset him, and as a result two American airmen lay dead in front of Terminal 2 a few days later.

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Dr. Roscoe C. Brown — former president of the Bronx Community College, director of the Institute of Afro - American Affairs at New York University, professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Tuskegee Airman during World War II — passed away at the age of 94 on June 2, 2016 at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx.

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African - American pilots to fly in a combat squad during WWII.

MTV has debuted another new trailer for Red Tails, the George Lucas - produced WWII film about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African - American pilots to fly in a combat squad.

With the heroic trio comprised of Americans, Anthony Sadler, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, and U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Spencer Stone, who play themselves in the film, the presentation follows the course of the friends» lives, from the struggles of childhood through finding their footing in life, to the series of unlikely events leading up to the attack.

That same year, Parker starred in the Tuskegee Airmen biopic «Red Tails,» the Spike Lee film «Red Hook Summer,» and the crime thriller «Arbitrage,» the last of which won him a supporting actor award at the African - American Film Critics Association.

«Bridge of Spies» is Steven Spielberg's Cold War drama about an American lawyer hauled into negotiations to release an airman marooned behind Russian lines.

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, or the 332nd Fighter Group of the United States Army Air Corps, is an integral part of American history.

After two Tuskegee Airmen are brought to the camp, racial tensions between the Yankee prisoners erupt, leading to a murder and an extended court martial that casts doubt on the American prisoners» moral superiority in questions of race and justice.

Other plays in the Ms. Bie Ografee's Talk Show Series: The Constitution (A Visit with James Madison, «Father of the Constitution»), Dr. Seuss, A Visit with Josh Crabtree, A Tory during the American Revolutionary War, Charles Dickens, Johnny Appleseed, Albert Einstein, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Bessie Coleman Sacagawea, George Washington Carver, Thomas Edison, Martin Luther King, Sequoia, Michelangelo, DaVinci, Tuskegee Airmen, Susan B. Anthony, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, an interview with a groundhog, an interview with a leprechaun, an interview with Simon, victim of the Black Death, An Interview with Agent 355, a female agent in the Culper Spy Ring (Revolutionary War), Interview with a 49er from the California Gold Rush, Albert Einstein, Rachel Carson, Katherine Johnson and more.

I'll never forget the Japanese - American vet who grew teary as he described the day that, unknowingly, he watched his own brother — an airman for the Japanese Empire — being shot down in a fighter plane overhead.

Since only miles from Detroit, Warren has many cultural and entertainment activities which include, the Detroit Zoo, Children's Museum, Motown Historical Museum, National Museum of the Tuskegee Airmen, Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.

As of December 2016, statistics from the Federal Aviation Administration show that there are 584,362 Americans with an active airman certificate and of those 162,313 have a private plane certificate.

The underwriting time for American General takes a little longer than most of the other companies but their rates are by far the lowest in the industry for full time Airman.