IN HCR0056

Urges the Indiana Department of Transportation to designate the section of Interstate Highway 65 from Seymour to Johnson County as "The Tuskegee Airmen Highway"

Recognizes the Tuskegee Airmen as America's first African-American military pilots, with approximately 1,000 trained at Tuskegee University between 1941 and 1946

Acknowledges the 332nd Fighter Group's World War II record of flying more than 700 bomber escort missions and never losing an escorted bomber to enemy fighters

Honors 28 named Indiana members of the Tuskegee Airmen, including Indianapolis native Charles DeBow and Brazil native Charles Hall, the first African-American military aviator to shoot down an enemy plane in air-to-air combat

Directs the House Principal Clerk to transmit a copy of the resolution to the Indianapolis Chapter of Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. and the Indiana Department of Transportation commissioner