In July, 2009 the P-51C Mustang named "Tuskegee Airmen" took to the skies again after a fatal crash in 2004. It has the Red tail that the TA used to identify themselves, resulting in the name "Red Tails"
The Tuskegee Airmen:
There were 992 pilots trained at Tuskegee, Alabama while over 10,000 Black maintenance personnel trained at Chanute Field in Illinois. Five hundred and fifty bomber pilots and their crews were trained but the war ended before they were deployed overseas. The remaining 445 fighter pilots and their crews entered combat in Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa. The Tuskegee Airmen were forced to operate as segregated units and not allowed to train or fight alongside their white fellow countrymen. To identify themselves they painted the tails of their aircraft red, thus becoming the "Red Tails". The Tuskegee Airmen "Red Tails" carried the hopes and dreams of equality for themselves and their thirteen million African American countrymen into battle.
At "Airsho" 2010 Midland, Texas.
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