The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of African-American military pilots (fighter and bomber) who fought in World War II. They formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces.
The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of African-American military pilots (fighter and bomber) who fought in World War II. They formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces.
The experience of black pilots in WW2 is the convergence of the long civil rights struggles of racial minorities in the United States and the national military's grappling with how to integrate these groups into the armed forces, specifically the Army Air Corps, in the twentieth century. This article will…
