Tuskegee Airmen National Museum

On the grounds of Historic Fort Wayne, this museum documents the first African American flying unit, the segregated 99th Fighter Squadron, which served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. Your guides are real... More »

On the grounds of Historic Fort Wayne, this museum documents the first African American flying unit, the segregated 99th Fighter Squadron, which served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. Your guides are real Tuskegee Airmen, veterans who can explain the old photographs and memorabilia and tell their own stories of combat. They were trained at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. There are wonderful collections of aircraft models and fliers' uniforms, the leather bomber jackets with white scarves. Detroit came to host the museum because former Mayor Coleman Young was a Tuskegee Airman.