America’s Black Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen
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America’s Black Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen

In early 1941, the US War Department reluctantly began to accept African Americans candidates for pilot training in the US Army Air Corps (later the US Army Air Forces). However, military authorities insisted that black pilots serve in racially segregated units. The result was the 99th Pursuit Squadron, America’s first all-black flying unit. It was ...