WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Tuskegee Airmen, the all-Black fighter pilot group trained at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, escorted bombers over Italy and Sicily, flying 1600 combat missions and destroying 237 German aircraft on ground and 37 in air.

Detailed explanation-2: -However, as World War II revved up industry production, African Americans began to move from rural areas and into city centers again, and from southern cities to northern ones. By the end of World War II, the majority of the black population lived in urban areas.

Detailed explanation-3: -The list includes Vernon Baker (one of seven African American Medal of Honor recipients for service during World War II), and Tuskegee Airmen John Leahr, William Holloman III, Charles McGee, and Roscoe Brown.

Detailed explanation-4: -Black soldiers served in artillery and infantry and performed all noncombat support functions that sustain an army, as well. Black carpenters, chaplains, cooks, guards, laborers, nurses, scouts, spies, steamboat pilots, surgeons, and teamsters also contributed to the war cause.