USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Tuskegee Airmen are best known for proving during World War II that Black men could be elite fighter pilots. Less widely known is the instrumental role these pilots, navigators and bombardiers played during the war in fighting segregation through nonviolent direct action.

Detailed explanation-2: -(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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The famous “Tuskegee Airmen” of the 332nd Fighter Group became part of the 15th Air Force, escorting American bombers as they flew over Italy. As escorts, flying P-47s and later P-51s, they were responsible for protecting larger bombers from German fighter planes.

Detailed explanation-4: -They may not have broken the sound barrier in their P-51 Mustangs, but the Tuskegee Airmen broke through the barrier that-until World War II-kept African Americans from becoming military pilots. In the process, they advanced the civil rights movement at home.

Detailed explanation-5: -This federally-funded and segregated program allowed Black Americans to train on combat aircraft and learn how to fly in case of another war. Black Americans were already allowed in the military, but they hadn’t been allowed to train as pilots yet.