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Tuskegee Airmen

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Purpose: "It doesn't matter what you look like or who you are, it only matters about what you can do" It means that people can do anything no matter what they look like or who they are. P.O.V: Pilot who joined up after realizing he had a chance to become a pilot Info -Army was ordered to raise an all black aviation unit by congress in 1941 -Created high standards so nobody would join, but caused more qualified black pilots joined. The army tried to keep the unit from being created but they couldn't stop it. -Nobody expected that the pilots were actually as good as or better than their white colleagues - they were not inter grated into a white unit and even took primary training at the all-black Tuskegee college- -Over 1000 pilots were trained for the Air Corps-They were first deployed in North Africa in 1943

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|| Who are the Tuskegee Airmen? || The Tuskegee Airmen were a experimental fighter group made up of all African American Pilots. The army was ordered to create this unit. Though the army had plans to keep the unit from being created. These pilots looked different from the others and people thought they couldn't do the job as well as the white pilots, they are so different even to the "red tail" painting on their back flight rudders. || || High standards || To keep out candidates for the program. The army had a plan to raise high standards to the point that only college graduates and those with flight experience to join. The army thought that few black people had a college education so they would be discouraged. This back fired because it made even more qualified black men sign up for flight training. Most thought that blacks didn't have the ability to fly planes fly planes. || || Classes || The pilot's received training at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, most candidates already had flight training. Almost 1,000 pilots were trained though most people thought because they looked diffrent that only a minority of black people were qualified to serve in the military or have an education, even though one of their leaders was a black West Point Graduate. || || Almost Failure || The committee sent researchers to the Texas A&M University to find that blacks have lower intelligence than whites. This lead to an investigation that proved that the unit was as good as other all-white squadrons. || || Battles || They were then merged into a Single Unit (332nd Fighter Group). The unit's first mission was attacking the volcaninc island of Panterilla for the invasion of Sicily. The Unit earned a Distinguished Unit Citation. The Unit defended landing troops at Anzio shooting down enemy fighters and having the highest amount of kills of all the all-white squadrons. The Tuskegee Airmen were better than the other squadrons. || || Amazing Feats || Before, Most African American military units would never see combat or would just do menial labour. They flew 15,000 missions and destroyed thousands of German aircraft, there were 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses awarded to members of the unit. More awards than other units evan though they did noy look like the rest. || || The End of The Tuskegee Airmen || After the war ended, most of the Tuskegee Airmen were sought out for the Air Force and civillan job positions because of their impressive flight record even though they looked different. The 332nd still operates as the 332nd Air Expeditionary Unit. And the the unit also fly with their distincive "red tail" paintings as the 99th flight traing squardron ||
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 * 4[[image:tuskegee12a.jpg width="150" height="154"]] || Early Prejudice || Half of the Trained pilots were fighter pilot's who served overseas in the 99th Pursuit Squadron or 100th 301st and 302nd squadrons. The pilot's however were not proven as Colonel William M. Momyer of the 36th Fighter Group said the group was a failure and even had a research committee to find that the project should be scrapped. Even though they have seen little combat. ||
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 * 9 || Legacy || The unit taught the military that it only matters what a person can do not because of the way they look, this helped to lead the Army and Navy into desegregation of units with whites and blacks fighting side by side. They did their job as well as the others even though they looked different. Their contribution was so much that the surviving pilots and widows were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2007 ||
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