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Segregated skies : all-Black combat squadrons of WW II / Stanley Sandler.

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When the United States Army Air Corps, responding to pressure, opened its ranks to blacks in July 1941, it formed four fighter squadrons exclusively composed of black men. Known as the Tuskegee Airmen, these squadrons represented the total number of blacks who saw action in United States combat avia...

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Main Author: Sandler, Stanley, 1937-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1992.
Series:Smithsonian history of aviation series.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, African American.
United States. > Army Air Forces. > Fighter Squadron, 99th > History.
United States. > Army Air Forces. > Fighter Group, 332nd > History.
United States. > Army Air Forces. > Composite Group, 477th > History.
United States. > Army Air Forces > African American troops.
United States. > Army Air Forces.
United States. > Army Air Forces. > Composite Group, 477th.
United States. > Army Air Forces. > Fighter Group, 332nd.
United States. > Army Air Forces. > Fighter Squadron, 99th.
World War (1939-1945)
Armed Forces > African American troops.
Military operations, Aerial > American.
Military participation > African American.
History.

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