TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moye,J.Todd
TI  - Freedom flyers: the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II 
T2  - Oxford oral history series
SN  - 9780199896554 (pbk.)
AV  - D790.252 332nd .M69 2012
U1  - 940.544 MOY 23
KW  - United States
KW  - Army Air Forces
KW  - Fighter Group, 332nd
KW  - Fighter Squadron, 99th
KW  - Composite Group, 477th
KW  - African American troops
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Aerial operations, American
KW  - Regimental histories
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Europe
KW  - Participation, African American
KW  - African American air pilots
KW  - History
N1  - Originally published: 2010; Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue : "This is where you ride" -- The use of Negro manpower in war -- The Black Eagles take flight -- The experiment -- Combat on several fronts -- The trials of the 477th -- Integrating the Air Force -- Epilogue : "Let's make it a holy crusade all the way around"
N2  - In this inspiring account of the Tuskegee Airmen--the country's first African American military pilots--historian J. Todd Moye captures the challenges and triumphs of these brave aviators in their own words, drawing on more than 800 interviews recorded for the National Park Service's Tuskegee
Airmen Oral History Project; Denied the right to fully participate in the U.S. war effort alongside whites at the beginning of World War II, African Americans--spurred on by black newspapers and civil rights organizations such as the NAACP--compelled the prestigious Army Air Corps to open its training programs to black pilots,
despite the objections of its top generals. Thousands of young men came from every part of the country to Tuskegee, Alabama, in the heart of the segregated South, to enter the program, which expanded in 1943 to train multi-engine bomber pilots in addition to fighter pilots. By the end of the war,
Tuskegee Airfield had become a small city populated by black mechanics, parachute packers, doctors, and nurses. Together, they helped prove that racial segregation of the fighting forces was so inefficient as to be counterproductive to the nation's defense

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