Military

Military

1. 54th Massachusetts Regiment

2. C. Alfred “Chief” Anderson (aviator; flight instructor)

3. Jesse LeRoy Brown (Navy pilot)

4. Buffalo Soldiers

5. Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr. (Air Force Officer)

6. Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. (Army officer)

7. Hellfighters (also known as the Harlem Hellfighters; 369th Infantry Regiment)

8. Daniel “Chappie” James, Jr. (Army officer; Air Force fighter pilot)

9. William Henry Johnson (known as Henry Johnson) (Army soldier)

10. George Jordan (Buffalo Soldier)

11. Doris “Dorie” Miller (Navy sailor)

12. Colin Luther Powell (Army General)

13. Peter Salem (U.S. soldier in the American Revolutionary War)

14. Tuskegee Airmen

15. Johnson Chestnut Whittaker (West Point cadet)

16. Cathay Williams (pseudonym William Cathay) (soldier)

17. George Washington Williams (American Civil War soldier; minister; politician; lawyer; journalist; writer)

18. Charles Young (1864-1922) (U.S. Army)