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April 1945. National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division, NASM 99-15439. I offer this brief, brief summary of the Tuskegee Airmen story as a way of introducing a short, but fascinating video that features a treasured object in the Museum's collection — a restored World War II-era PT-13 Stearman used to train many of the Tuskegee Airmen.
Mar 18, 2016 · Tuskegee Airmen receiving their commissions at the Tuskegee Army Flying School in Alabama in 1942. On March 19, 1941, the U.S. War Department established the 99th Pursuit Squadron, which, along...
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II? The Tuskegee Airmen were dedicated, determined young men who enlisted to become America’s first black military airmen, at a time when there were many people who thought that black men lacked intelligence, skill, courage, and patriotism.
