Meet The Famous Tuskegee Airmen
This is your chance to meet and speak with true aviation and civil-rights pioneers as well as heroes of World War II. Meet some of the famous Tuskegee Airmen at the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum and Center at the African American Pioneers in Aviation.
The Tuskegee airmen were pioneers during World War II. In 1941, the U.S. Congress forced the Army Air Corps (which it was called before it became the U.S. Air Force and a seperate branch of the military) to form an all-black combat flying unit. The War Department (now the Department of Defense) was not pleased with the requirement, so it …read more
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