Brigadier General Enoch Woody Woodhouse, Jr.

Enoch Woodhouse is one of the surviving Tuskegee Airmen. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first group of African American pilots and support personnel in the United States. They received flight training in Tuskegee and went on to serve in World War II as part of the U.S. Army Air Forces’ 332nd Fighter Group and 477th Bombardment Group. At a time when racial discrimination and segregation were still widespread in American society, the Tuskegee Airmen stood out as especially remarkable. In 1944, at the age of 17, Enoch Woodhouse joined the U.S. Army Air Forces and underwent training. From 1946 to 1948, he served as a finance officer for the Tuskegee Airmen. Woodhouse and his fellow airmen played an integral role in the early formation of the United States Air Force. After his military service, he graduated from Yale University and Boston University, and went on to practice law in Boston for more than 40 years. In 2022, the Governor of Massachusetts, on behalf of the state militia, awarded him the honorary rank of Brigadier General.