In celebration of Black History Month, NCAS-M is highlighting a journal article from Air Power History that discusses the contributions of Black Meteorologists during World War II: Tuskegee (Weather) Airmen.
While [Black people] represented approximately 10 percent of the American population in 1940, they comprised just 6.2 percent of the overall Army Air Forces (AAF) by August 1945 and only 0.4 percent of the AAF officer corps… Five of the original fifteen Tuskegee weather officers remained in service after the war, a retention rate of 33 percent, compared to an overall weather officer retention rate of less than 20 percent… Five more Tuskegee Airmen became weather officers after World War II.
