Joe Beach, a Graphic Illustrator for the Multimedia Center, at Randolph Air Force Base (AFB), painted a portrait of General (GEN) Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. for the 99th Flying Training Wing and its squadron heritage project
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Davis, Benjamin Oliver, Jr., 1912-2002
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Benjamin Oliver Davis (1912-2002) was born in Washington, DC, the son of Sadie (Overton) and Benjamin Oliver Davis. Upon his graduation from West Point in 1936, he requested an assignment in the Air Corps, which did not accept African Americans at the time. Instead he commissioned with the 24th Infantry in Georgia. In 1938 he taught at Tuskegee as professor of military science and tactics. The Army promoted him to the rank of captain in 1940 and a year later assigned him as an aide to...
