The Tuskegee Airmen were African-American units who achieved a distinguished record in World War II. Nearly a thousand fighter and bomber pilots, as well as 15,000 crew and support personnel served in the war with the U.S. Army Air Force when the military was racially segregated.
The first black military airmen, the Tuskegee Airmen were dedicated, determined young men who accepted the challenge during a time when many people thought that Blacks were inferior. Named for the Army Air Field where they trained in Alabama, the airfield is now Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site. [Read more…] about Tuskegee Airmen in World War II