(A) ** Tuskegee Airmen
(B) kamikaze
(C) Hiroshima/Nagasaki
(D) War Production Board
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -The only black air units that saw combat during the war were the 99th Pursuit Squadron and the 332nd Fighter Group . The dive-bombing and strafing missions under Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr. were considered to be highly successful. In May 1942, the 99th Pursuit Squadron was renamed the 99th Fighter Squadron.
Concept note-2: -The Tuskegee Airmen flew hundreds of patrol and attack missions for the Twelfth Air Force, flying P-40 and P-39 airplanes, before they were reassigned to the 15th Air Force to escort B-17 and B-24 heavy bombers, using P-47 and P-51 airplanes.
Concept note-3: -Tuskegee Airmen, black servicemen of the U.S. Army Air Forces who trained at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama during World War II. They constituted the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military.
Concept note-4: -The Airmen were deployed during the presidential administration of Dr. Frederick Douglas Patterson (1935-1953). The all-Black, 332nd Fighter Group consisted originally of four fighter squadrons, the 99th, the 100th, the 301st and the 302nd. From 1941-1946, some 1, 000 Black pilots were trained at Tuskegee.
Concept note-5: -(6) The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American soldiers to successfully complete their training and enter the Army Air Corps . Almost 1000 aviators were produced as America’s first African American military pilots.