But what makes this particular plane—with its Air Corps blue ... s first African-American military pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen, for aerial combat. Primary training took place at Moton Field ...

"The Tuskegee Airmen ... Black pilots in combat. Some senior Army officers suggested that they were underperforming. The ...

Deployed to Africa in 1943, the 99th flew its first combat mission ... destroying six aircraft and damaging four in a fiery battle over the Mediterranean. The Tuskegee airmen successfully engaged ...

which by war's end destroyed or damaged more than 400 enemy aircraft in North Africa and Europe during the war and sank a German destroyer in action. Of the 992 Tuskegee Airmen trained as pilots ...

A 3D model of the aircraft’s starboard ... including aerial combat and bombing exercises, while stationed in Michigan. At least six Tuskegee Airmen and their crafts were lost in the Great ...

The home is named after The Tuskegee Airmen, a group of more than 900 African-American military pilots and airmen who flew combat aircraft in World War II. They flew more than 1,500 missions in ...