HISTORY

Sources:

BUCHOLTZ C.: 332nd Fighter Group - Tuskegee Airmen

CALDWELL D.: Day Fighters in Defence of the Reich, War Diary, 1942 - 1945

HAULMAN D. L.: TUSKEGEE AIRMEN CHRONOLOGY

HAULMAN D. L.: THE TWELVE GREATEST AIR BATTLES OF THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN

HAULMAN D. L.: NINE MYTHS ABOUT THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN

OLYNYK F. J.: USAAF (Mediterranean Theater) Credits for the destruction of enemy aircraft in ait-to-air

combat, World War 2

PORUBA T., VLADAŘ J.: Messerschmitt Bf 109s of KG(J) 6

SCHUCK W.: Luftwaffe Eagle, From the Me 109 to the Me 262

ŠÍLA M., KACHA P., RADDOCK G.: Luftwaffe victories in 1945; Reich, Western and Eastern Front (March 1945)

TILLMAN B: Forgotten Fifteenth

Photo: Bundesheer/Pusch

Photo: Clarence Huntly via Jerry Whiting.

Despite very difficult circumstances, the pilots from Tuskegee

were able to leave their mark on American air power. In the post

war years, the policy of racial segregation within military units

was abandoned and many Tuskegee airmen continued to serve on

combat aircraft. One such person was former 332nd Fighter Group

CO Benjamin O. Davis, who flew F-86s in Korea while commanding

the 51st Fighter Wing, and would go on to be a Four-Star General.

Ninety-three-year-old Harry Stewart pays tribute to his murdered friend Walter Manning during the unveiling

of a memorial plaque at Vogler Air Base in Austria on April 3rd, 2018. American author Jerry Whiting helped

arrange Stewart's trip to Europe.

Photo: Toni Frissell, Library of Congress

Walter P. Manning was rejected for military service because of

a hammer toe, but used his savings to pay for surgery to repair

his toe so that he could enlist. He was awarded with Air Medal

for heroism with 5 Oak Leaf Clusters, European–African–Middle

Eastern Campaign Medal, Purple Heart a Congressional Gold

Medal (posthumously in 2007).

Tuskegee airman standing on an airfield, looking at Mustangs, Ramitelli, Italy.

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