Sunday, December 09, 2012

World War 2 Veterans | Tuskegee Airmen | PBS

World War 2 Veterans | Tuskegee Airmen | PBS: n 1941, amidst a segregated military and a country divided by Jim Crow laws, the first African-American fighter pilots were commissioned to aid the defense of bombers in war-torn Europe. Known as the Tuskegee Airmen, these brave and sometimes forgotten patriots fought skillfully to save lives by protecting Allied bombers from enemy fighters.

Revisit the exceptional story of the Tuskegee Airmen through these first-person accounts.