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As I conducted my research on the Tuskegee Airmen, I found several articles that would be very useful in my paper regarding the Tuskegee Airmen. The new found articles will allow me to study and determine the quality of airmanship they had. I would also enlighten me on their missions and how they looked at their own performance. These articles will also help me tell their story of how discrimination impacted there lives. Reading through these articles has helped me better the tell of this awesome story. It gives me dates and times and a list of what really led them to their success in life.
In the first article “The lonely Eagles” by Robert A. Rose, D.D.S. gave me a great insight to who these men really were. The U.S. Air Force Association honored all the Tuskegee Airmen of WWII at the 2008 Air and Space Conference. They gave out lifetime achievement awards to all who were there. Retired Airmen such as Colonel Charles McGhee, Lt. Colonel Walter McCreary and Colonel Elmer Jones were there to share the spotlight they deserved. They left a lasting legacy to aviators and support personnel. In his book "Lonely Eagles", Dr. Robert A. Rose tells there story of America’s black pilots in World War II. The book is a story of true patriotism, remarkable combat skills. The U.S. Air Force Association express their gratitude and the nation thanks to these heroes for their accomplished and duty's more than 60 ago.
In my second article “The Air Force Integrates" by Alan L. Gropman. The racial integration of negro pilots into the Air Force in WWII to the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Alan L. Gropman makes statements that the military desegregated itself, not for moral or political reasons but only to improve the military's effectiven...

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... down defending a country that looked at him as a second class citizen. He was from Detroit and Jefferson joined the Army Air Corps in 1941. Training at Tuskegee Alabama, becoming a 2nd lieutenant in 1942. He joined one of the most decorated fighting groups in the War, flying the P-51. Based out of Italy, Jefferson flew escort missions, over Europe before he was shot down in France in 1944.
My last article “332nd Fighter Group - Tuskegee Airmen." by Chris Bucholtz, Illustrated by Jim Laurier. The Tuskegee Experiment, it was an experiment to show and prove that negroes could not fly combat airplanes. Ironically it resulted in the upcoming of one of the Army Air Corp's elite units. I was able to gather more information from this source then any other I came across. It informed me of the planes they flew and where they fought, how many were killed and who became a POW.

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