Gov Docs: Tuskegee Airmen   Tags: african-american pilots, tuskegee airmen, wwii  

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Office of Air Force History
United States Air Force
Washington D.C. 1985

Focus on pre-history leading up to the Tuskegee Airmen.
Air Command and Staff College
Maxwell AFB, AL 1988

Special Studies
Office of Air Force History
U. S. Air Force
Washington, D.C., 1986

Arranged by date of Action for which it was awarded. Researcher: Dr. Daniel L. Haulman

PUBLIC LAW 109–213—APR. 11, 2006

Center of Military History
U.S. Army
Washington, D.C., 2000

"Those air crew and ground crew personnel associated with black flying units of the Army Air Forces (AAF) during World War II are known as the Tuskegee Airmen."

"Many soldiers in the Air Force and military have heard of the Tuskegee Airmen. To the U.S. Army Air Corps bombers over the skies of Germany, during World War II, they were more fondly known as the Red Tailed Angels sent to protect them from the Luftwaffe fighter aircraft."

"Who are the Legends of Tuskegee and what do they have in common? Booker Taliafero Washington, George Washington Carver and the Tuskegee Airmen all came to Tuskegee and created their own legends. Tuskegee is more than a town located in Macon County, Alabama. It is an idea and an ideal. It was a bold experiment and a site of major African-American achievements for over 100 years."

Chapter 6: "Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.: American Hero" by Alan L. Gropman
NASA History Division
Washington, DC 2005

AirPower History Summer 2006

"During World War II, the U.S. military was racially segregated. Reflecting American society and law at the time, most black soldiers and sailors were restricted to labor battalions and other support positions. An experiment in the U.S. Army Air Forces, however, showed that given equal opportunity and training, African-Americans could fly in, command and support combat units as well as anyone."

"In spite of adversity and limited opportunities, African Americans have played a significant role in U.S. military history over the past 300 years."

"The Tuskegee Airman were an elite group of African-American pilots in the 1940s."

"The Air Corps’ refusal to allow African-Americans to join its ranks ended on October 9, 1940, when the War Department, at the urging of President Franklin Roosevelt, who wished to guarantee the support of African-Americans in the next presidential election, issued a statement declaring that "Negroes are being given aviation training as pilots, mechanics, and technical specialists."

Air Force Historical Research Agency
Expanded Edition: 23 December 2010

"In the 1940's Tuskegee, Alabama became home to a "military experiment" to train America's first African-American military pilots. In time the "experiment" became known as the Tuskegee Experience and the participants as the Tuskegee Airmen. Come share their experience as depicted at the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site."

"The story of the Tuskegee Airmen is one of defying the odds, overcoming racism, and performing superbly in combat. All the personnel in this outstanding unit were African-American, from the ground crew to the combat pilots."