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Title: Tuskegee Airmen


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Tuskegee Airmen
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World War II (1939-1945)
  • German armies swept across Europe
  • December 7, 1941 Japanese Navy bombs U.S. Naval
    Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
  • U.S. enters the war after bombing

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Call to action
  • President Roosevelt called on Americans to help
    win the war
  • African-Americans rose to the challenge and many
    joined the military to fight
  • Military was segregated. They were not allowed to
    fight alongside white soldiers.

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U.S. Army air corps
  • Branch of the military that recruited and trained
    pilots for combat
  • Later renamed U.S. Air Force
  • Did not allow African Americans to join until
    1941 when the 99th Pursuit Squadron of fighter
    pilots was created.
  • All members were African-Americans
  • Trained at an airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama
  • Group became known as the Tuskegee Airmen

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  • Your future, good or bad, will depend largely on
    how determined you are not to give satisfaction
    to those who would like to see you fail.
  • -- Captain Noel Parrish addressing the Tuskegee
    pilots before their deployment
  • Captain Parrish worked hard to convince top
    military leaders that his pilots were ready,
    willing, and able to fight
  • April 1943, first 400 members of the 99th Fighter
    Squadron sent to war in North Africa and Europe

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