U.S. Air Force

He flew as a combat pilot in three wars.

He was just 17 years old when he helped stage a landmark sit-in.

He was the last surviving pilot from the “Bloody Hundredth.”

His surrealist wordplay made the novelist a favorite of American counter-culture.

He was one of four Tuskegee Airmen who shot down three enemy planes in a single day.

Davis took home top prizes from the 1960 Rome Olympics.

Engle flew multiple missions in the X-15, an experimental spaceplane.

Cobbs was also in films like “Demolition Man” and “The Bodyguard.”

Schul set national and world records while living with asthma.

He orbited the moon on Apollo 8 in 1968.