The Red Tails formed as an all-Black fighter pilot group that trained at Tuskegee College, hence their equally memorable nickname. They formed as African American civil rights groups pressured the government and military to allow Black pilots. As of 1940, few African Americans were qualified pilots, and even fewer existed in the US Army […]
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