Eugene B. Jackson (June 26, 1923 – September 20, 2015) was a mechanic in the United States Army Air Force who served with the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II.

[1] Jackson originally tried to join the Royal Canadian Air Force, as many Americans had done prior to the United States' entry into the war, but was told to try in the US first.

Over the course of the following two years, he traveled across the United States to receive mechanical and aircraft instrument instruction, sparing him some of the worst example of racism acted upon the Tuskegee Airmen who remained in Alabama for the whole of their training.

[1] Jackson was stationed in Italy and North Africa beginning in 1944 with the 332nd Fighter Group and followed them to mainland Europe after the Normandy invasion.

[2][3] He was discharged at the end of the war but trouble finding a job as a black airplane mechanic in the civilian world led him to rejoin the military for a short time in 1950.