New 360-Degree VR ‘Tuskegee Airmen’ Film Puts You in the Cockpit of a P-51 Mustang as a Whole New Way of Teaching History

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New 360-Degree VR ‘Tuskegee Airmen’ Film Puts You in the Cockpit of a P-51 Mustang as a Whole New Way of Teaching History

On June 2, 1943 Lieutenant Charles B. Hall of the Army Air Forces shot down an enemy Italian fighter plane over the island of Pantelleria off the Tunisian Coast. He was the first African American ever to do so. Hall was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the Black fighter pilots who trained at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and served as critical air support during the invasion of Italy and as bomber escorts over Occupied Europe thereafter. The…