At Anzio with nearly 8,000 soldiers, Airmen, sailors

America's Black Flyers - African American Tuskegee Airmen America's Black Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen

The Tuskegee Airmen, WWII African American pilots. Find out about their struggle to get to fight for their country and their accomplishments 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, Ame…

At Anzio with nearly 8,000 soldiers, Airmen, sailors

ANZIO AMERICAN CEMETERY, Italy — Trips to honor fallen Americans can be as far as the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery in Italy — 6,400 miles— and as near as a monument on Lancaster Boulevard, about 20 miles south of Edwards Air Force Base in California. Combat aviation has been part of the Edwards and Antelope Valley’s shared legacy since Gen. Curtis “Iron Eagle” Lemay was training World War II bomber crews to hit the mocked-up wooden battleship n…