This Black History Month, Fly Legacy would like to honor historical African American aviators, some being the notorious flight group called the Tuskegee Airmen Formed as the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces, the Tuskegee Airmen were the first Black military aviators to be in the U.S.
AAC (Army Air Corps). Trained in Alabama in the Tuskegee Army Airfield, these pilots flew more than 15,000 individual sorties in Europe and North Africa during World War II. During the war, they had destroyed 36 German planes in the air and 237 on the ground, as well as nearly 1,000 rail cars and transport vehicles and a German destroyer.
From their impressive performance, the Tuskegee Airmen earned more than 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses, all while helping encourage integration of the U.S. armed forces. The success of the Tuskegee Airmen by proof that African American soldiers are not inferior to white soldiers resulted in the eventual desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces and the mandation of equality of opportunity and treatment on July 26, 1948.
