A Tuskegee Airman Over Europe by Matthew A. Rozell (.ePUB)+
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A Tuskegee Airman Over Europe by Matthew A. Rozell
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Overview: The Tuskegee Airmen, or ‘Red Tails’ as they came to be known, were a special group of airmen who trained at the airfield near the famed Tuskegee Institute in Alabama who would become the first African-American aviators in the United States military. Still segregated before 1940, the military had previously denied young black men the opportunity to fly for their country in combat. Historically, this was nothing new. The prevailing attitude that African-American recruits lacked the intellectual capacity and stamina for battlefield and leadership roles went back centuries; a mid-1920s military report reinforced age old falsehoods and stereotypes about the combat readiness of the African-American soldier. Still, as war loomed on the horizon, the training of young black pilots, bombardiers, navigators and supporting personnel began as a US Army Air Corps ‘experiment’— would these young people of color really be able to hold their own? Nearly a thousand men completed the Tuskegee advanced flight training program and went on to compile a distinguished record as the 332nd Fighter Group (eventually comprised of four fighter squadrons—the 99th, 100th, 301st, and 302nd) flying nearly 1400 combat missions over war torn Europe.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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