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 airmen responded by shooting down more enemy planes. By 1945, the airmen ...

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 ...