Historical Marker
Dave Patton
Historical marker location:
1252 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Mobile, Alabama
( Marker is at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and Hickory Street, on the right when traveling west on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue.)
(1879-1927).
The city of Tuskegee, Alabama is the birthplace of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military pilots. During World War II, the Tuskegee Airmen were trained at the Tuskegee Institute and went on to fly over 1,500 missions in the war.