Tuskegee Airmen

The Tuskegee airmen were a popular African American pilot group in WWII. Because they were the first African American group of pilots to help flight in air to air combat. At first they trained in cheep planes and bi planes as they got more successful the United States government up graded them to p51 mustangs and they painted them with red tails. This is how they got their name as 'Red Tails'. In 1917 the group of men asked to be surveyors but not in combat, they got rejected. Then they tried to make a test to see if the men were mentally fit for the job even that it was super easy. Later on they were able to take down grounded objects such as tanks, trucks and trains. The pilots were less fortunate in what they got as in planes they the other white pilots. The Tuskegee pilots still wanted to fight in the war though. One day they had an opportunity to prove them selves and they took it and succeeded. The budding flight program at Tuskegee received a publicity boost when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt inspected it in March 1941, and flew with African-American chief civilian instructor C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson. She was impressed and their name started getting bigger and they received more support. Soon enough they received p51’s and panted them with red tails and red tails became their name. They got to fight in air to air combat and became very successful. In 2012 a movie came out about them named “Red Tails” . The spread of the tuskee airmen proved that blacks could fight in the war and people started to realize that they were also needed.