Yeah last answer was completely random. We're doing this in class and i read that there were 994 original Tuskegee airman/mechanics
Black men were depicted as having a lower IQ and overall control or less developed. To become a pilot you need to pass high standarts. This change that myth about the black race. Without the Tuskeegee airmen, I dont think we have even concidered Obama for president.
Most US Soldierss were not captured. Those circumstances were usually reserved for US Airmen who had been shot down over North Vietnam. Torture may have occurred to those downed airmen, whose status was POW (Prisoner of War). Refer to books and websites concerning POWs in the Vietnam War.
US POWs still surviving in North Vietnam were released to the US in 1973; the vast majority of them were US Airmen who had been shot down during the air war over North Vietnam.
Nearly all of the US POWs were airmen shot down while on bombing missions over North Vietnam. Therefore, that's were they were imprisoned when they were captured...in various prisons located through-out NORTH Vietnam.
There were thousands of airmen of both sides shot down in Europe in WW2.
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African Americans served in the infantry, Army Air Corp (Tuskeegee Airmen) and on the ships of the United States Navy. They served valiantly in combat, at home and in the supply troops. The Tuskeegee Airmen won more medals than any other air unit.
The Tuskegee Airmen was a group of all African American pilots. They fought in World War Two. At that time, military was segregated and the Tuskegee Airmen faced racial discrimination.
Yeah last answer was completely random. We're doing this in class and i read that there were 994 original Tuskegee airman/mechanics
Moton Field, the home of the Tuskegee Airmen, was located a few miles north of the municipality of Tuskeegee in Macon County, Alabama.
Prisoners of War; nearly all were downed airmen (shot down US airmen) over North Vietnam.
Black men were depicted as having a lower IQ and overall control or less developed. To become a pilot you need to pass high standarts. This change that myth about the black race. Without the Tuskeegee airmen, I dont think we have even concidered Obama for president.
The edelweiss pirates helped allied airmen who got shot down. All the people he put in concentration camps as well.
Tuskeegee University in Tuskeegee,Alabama.
Certainly there were Black Americans who fought and served during World War 2 in all the armed forces. The most famous crew of them are called the Tuskeegee Airmen. Their story is on Wikipedia and at their own web site.
USN LT Alvarez was the first US POW of the war, and the first US pilot to be shot down over North Vietnam in '64. Both he and Senator McCain (also shot down) flew the US Navy's A4 Skyhawk in Vietnam. Approximately 362 Skyhawks were lost in the war, and was nick-named "Scooter" by it's airmen.