The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American pilots who saw combat during the Second World War. The 332 | dG1fY2s1Y2NPLWo4QVU
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00:00Flying planes was a thing that a black man could never hope to do.
00:22We knew the war was coming.
00:24You had to be a moron not to know that sooner or later we would be in it.
00:27I thought Hitler and Germany was a greater risk to us as black people also, and I was
00:33very, very set on doing anything I could to stop it.
00:39The black pilots were expected to fail, but they didn't keep to the script.
00:45They painted the tails of their Mustangs bold and brave red.
00:51We were very comfortable with the red tails.
00:54We thought they were the best of the fighter escort.
00:57We thought they were the best we could get.