On Monday, the Memphis VA hospital was renamed in honor of Tuskegee airman Lieutenant Colonel Luke Weathers Jr.
A Memphis native, Weathers enlisted in one of the first training programs open to African-American pilots and flew with the celebrated "Red Tails" during World War II.
He is credited with bringing down German and Italian planes during the war.
Congressman Steve Cohen introduced the bill to rename the hospital last year.
Weathers received the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Congressional Gold Medal and other honors. He served as an air traffic controller in Memphis and died in 2011 at 90 years old.
Luke Weathers III, son of Weathers II, was front and center at the renaming event on Monday.
"This is historical — not only for our family — but for the Memphis community as a whole," Weathers II said.