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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 ...
Distinguished Flying Cross. Wendell Oliver Pruitt (June 20, 1920 – April 15, 1945) was an American military pilot and Tuskegee Airman [1] originally from St. Louis, Missouri. He was killed during a training exercise in 1945. [2] After his death, his name, along with that of William L. Igoe, was given to the Pruitt–Igoe public housing ...
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 ...
James B. Knighten. James Bernard Knighten (December 11, 1919 – November 9, 2000) was one of the first twelve African-Americans to become a pilot in the United States Army Air Corps after graduating from flight school at the Tuskegee Army Air Field. [1] [2] He became a member of the famed 99th Fighter Squadron, part of the World War II-era ...
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 ...
William H. Holloman. William Hugo Holloman III (August 21, 1924 – June 12, 2010) was a U.S. Army Air Force officer, combat fighter pilot, and high-profile member of the prodigious 332nd Fighter Group 's 99th Fighter Squadron, best known as the Tuskegee Airmen, "Red Tails," or “Schwarze Vogelmenschen” ("Black Birdmen") among enemy German ...
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 ...