Tuskegee+Airmen

T[|he Tuskegee airmen were the first group of black soldiers allowed to serve in aviation positions]
[|Who Were They?] from Tuskegee Airmen National Museum


 * They were part of the 99th Pursuit Squadron of fighter planes identified by red tail markings.


 * They provided coverage for bombers flying missions over Europe


 * They were called Black Bird Men (Schwartze Vogelmenschen) by the German military; American bomber crews referred them as Red Tail Angels

[|Facts and Chronology] from Tuskegee University

[|Nine Myths about the Tuskegee Airmen], by Daniel Haulman, Tuskegee University, October 2011



**Primary Sources**

 * [|Executive Order 8802, 1941 (by Franklin Roosevelt]) From [|Red Tailed Angels]: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library)


 * [|Command of Negro Troops: War Department Pamphlet](1944)


 * [|Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt and Charles Alfred Anderson]


 * [|Roosevelt Letter to Walter White](1944) about nondiscrimination in the post-war GI Bill of Rights

[|Mal Whitfield was an Airman and 3 Time Olympic Gold Medalist]



**Multimedia Resources**
[|The Tuskegee Red-Tailed Angels] from Smithsonian Channel

[|Wings for This Man,] U. S. Army Film (1945) on YouTube



**Lesson Plans**
[|Learning Guide to The Tuskegee Airmen]from Teach with Movies

See United States History II.15 for more on battles of World War II