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Posted on Mon, Jun 27, 2011

Tuskegee Airmen

Prior to 1940, African-American pilots were excluded from the U.S. military. The Tuskegee Airmen were a revolutionary corps of all-African American fighter pilots assembled in 1941. They surmounted racial prejudice to become one of the most successful fighter squadrons in WWII.

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