Tuskegee Airmen honored at event

A monument honoring the Tuskegee Airmen will be dedicated at 2 p.m. Saturday at the New Mexico Veterans’ Memorial, 1100 Louisiana SE. The Tuskegee Airmen were African-American fighter and bomber pilots who trained at the segregated Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama from 1942 through 1946. More than 400 served overseas, flying patrol and strafing missions, and serving as bomber escorts from bases in North Africa and Italy. Three New Mexico Tuskegee Airmen — Dr. James Williams and James Clayton Flowers, both of Las Cruces, and the family of the late John Allen of Rio Rancho — will also be recognized.