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The Red Tail Squadron, part of the non-profit Commemorative Air Force (CAF), known as the Red Tail Project until June 2011, maintains and flies a World War II era North American P-51C Mustang. The twice-restored aircraft flies to create interest in the history and accomplishments of the members of the World War II-era 332nd Fighter Group, also ...
The Tuskegee Airmen / tʌsˈkiːɡiː / [1] was a group of primarily African American military pilots (fighter and bomber) and airmen who fought in World War II. They formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group (Medium) of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). The name also applies to the navigators, bombardiers ...
Federal Sky Marshal Program Assistant Secretary of Transportation. Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr. (December 18, 1912 – July 4, 2002) was a United States Air Force (USAF) general and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen. He was the first African-American brigadier general in the USAF. On December 9, 1998, he was advanced to four-star ...
By February 1944, McGee was stationed in Italy with the 302nd Fighter Squadron of the 332d Fighter Group, flying his first mission on Valentine's Day. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] McGee flew the Bell P-39Q Airacobra , the Republic P-47D Thunderbolt , and the North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft, escorting Consolidated B-24 Liberator and Boeing B-17 ...
Lee Archer (pilot) Lee Andrew Archer, Jr. (September 6, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an African American fighter Ace in the 332nd Fighter Group, commonly known as the Tuskegee Airmen, during World War II. He was one of the first African American military aviators in the United States Army Air Corps, the United States Army Air Forces and later ...
The Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron aerial act will remind audiences about another legendary World War II effort, that of the Tuskegee Airman, comprising America’s first Black military ...
Designated NHLD. November 6, 1998. Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama, commemorates the contributions of African-American airmen in World War II. Moton Field was the site of primary flight training for the pioneering pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, and is now operated by the National Park Service to ...
John Lyle (pilot) Flight Officer John Lyle (1920 – 2019) was an American World War II pilot and a member of the famed group of World War II -era African-Americans known as the Tuskegee Airmen. Dickson flew 26 combat missions during WWII. [1] He had a lifelong love of sailing and over the course of his life he owned seven different boats.