Historical Marker
Oaklawn Cemetery
Historical marker location:
Mobile, Alabama
( Marker is on Holt Road (Local Route 1800), on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 2019
Mobile County.
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.