The Freeman Field Mutiny was a 1945 protest against racial segregation in the U.S. Army, when Black officers of the 477th Bombardment Group (Tuskegee Airmen) challenged segregated officers' clubs at Freeman Army Airfield, Indiana. Their peaceful resistance led to 162 arrests, but public pressure resulted in their release, the removal of the base commander, and later recognition of their actions as a key step toward the desegregation of the U.S. armed forces, which was officially ordered by President Truman's Executive Order 9981 in 1948. Today, the site is commemorated with a museum, historical marker, and Tuskegee Airmen statues.