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008			111130r20122010enka b 001 0 eng d
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016	7		_a015985935 _2Uk
020			_a9780199896554 (pbk.)
020			_a0199896550 (pbk.)
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050		4	_aD790.252 332nd _b.M69 2012
050		4	_aD790.252 332nd _b.M69 2012
082	0	4	_a940.544 MOY _223
100	1		_aMoye, J. Todd.
245	1	0	_aFreedom flyers : _bthe Tuskegee Airmen of World War II / _cJ. Todd Moye
300			_a241 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
490	1		_aOxford oral history series
500			_aOriginally published: 2010
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505	0		_aPrologue : "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"
520			_aIn 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.
520			_aDenied 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.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bArmy Air Forces. _bFighter Group, 332nd.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bArmy Air Forces. _bFighter Squadron, 99th.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bArmy Air Forces. _bComposite Group, 477th.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bArmy Air Forces _xAfrican American troops
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xAerial operations, American.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xRegimental histories _zUnited States.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xCampaigns _zEurope.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xParticipation, African American.
650		0	_aAfrican American air pilots _xHistory
830		0	_aOxford oral history series.
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