On a 1951 mission, Colonel Charles McGee, one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, was hit by Korean gunfire. Despite damage to the left wing of his P-51 Mustang, he was miraculously able to steer it home. 🎥Air Warriors | Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation

German Pilots Mocked The Tuskegee ‘Red Tails’ — Then U Discover the extraordinary true story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the pioneering African American fighter pilots who shattered Nazi racial ideology and transformed aerial combat in World War II. Known as the "Red Tails" for their distinctively painted P-51 Mustangs and reportedly called "Schwarze Vogelmenschen" (Black Birdmen) by the German Luftwaffe, these elite pilots destroyed 112 enemy aircraft while protecting American bombers over Nazi Ger

This month in 1972, the Washington Star newspaper exposed the Tuskegee Institute syphilis experiment — a secret study on the effects of untreated syphilis in Black men in Alabama. Learn more: https://comca.st/3f7GA9X | Voices of the Civil Rights Movement