Talk:Benjamin O. Davis Jr.

Tuskegee escort success report questioned

The Tuskegee airmen article mentions that there have been questions about the success of their escort flight, specifically the "no bomber shot down while escorted". This article claims the record as true, but should the questions be mentioned?--194.197.79.18 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 10:42, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., of which I am a member--the national association of original Tuskegee Airmen as well as those of us who seek to perpetuate their legacy--has disavowed the "no bomber shot down claim" and has required that those of us who make public presentations about the Airmen no longer make that claim. The source of the myth apparently was a 1944 article in the Chicago Defender newspaper--a paper with a largely African-American readership--in which the writer made that claim, at a time when it perhaps actually was true. Whatever the case, the claim was accepted for many years thereafter and eventually became part of the Tuskegee Airmen legend. Recent research at the Air Force Historical Center at Montgomery AFB, in Alabama, has firmly disproved it, however. I'll let those Wikipedians who enjoy doing so find the correct citations.173.62.108.108 (talk) 18:06, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

General Davis' Service/Branch

General Benjamin O. Davis Jr.s Service/Branch should be listed as BOTH the United States Air Force AND the United States Army, Just as the article for General Henry H. Arnold lists him in both services.

--Vann98 (talk) 03:12, 19 January 2009 (UTC) I think it would be nice to have something about his childhood. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rager56 (talk • contribs) 15:03, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

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15 April 1943 deployment from Brooklyn Navy Yard docked in New York with U S troops boarding the troop carrier ship the S S Mariposa departing the Brooklyn Navy Yard on 15 April 1943 with troops of the medical units and troops from the Tuskegee Airmen onboard and departing for Casablanca, French Marocco and arriving on the 24 April 1943.

Have the North African campaign during WW2 accomplishments that warranted the awarding of the French CROIX DE' GUERRE WITH PALME' to African American soldier's been hurried in past United State's history or do the 1993 U S Archives fire in Washington, District Of Columbia make it acceptable that that history is never recognized to date. Todler89 (talk) 17:01, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

University of France?

As of 2023-02-06 the section on "Early military career" begins, "After attending the University of France and the University of Chicago, Davis entered the United States Military Academy (West Point)".

I'm deleting the reference to the University of France in part because it is not mentioned in either of the two references for this sentence, AND because the Wikipedia article on the "University of France" says it "was disbanded in 1896", before General Davis Jr. was born. If you want to restore it, you either need to fix the article on the University of France, so it makes this claim plausible, or you need to mention a different institution in place of the University of France. DavidMCEddy (talk) 04:32, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Father and Son, both "first black brigadier general"s??

Now what, according to the wiki page of his father, that is the first black brigadier general. Not the son ...Foerdi (talk) 15:41, 11 December 2023 (UTC)