LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) – Little Rock native Milton Crenchaw died in late 2015, but his legacy lives on as being part of the Tuskegee Airmen.
The group was made up of the first African-Americans to fly combat airplanes in World War II. His biography written by the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies says Crenchaw trained hundreds of pilots at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
He was later a large part in creating an aviation program at Philander Smith College in Little Rock. In 1998, Crenchaw was inducted into the Arkansas Aviation Hall of Fame, and in 2007, he was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame.
See Crenchaw's full biography here.
