Название: Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 253
Язык: English
Размер: 12.5 MB
As the country's first African American military pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen fought in World War II on two fronts: against the Axis powers in the skies over Europe and against Jim Crow racism and segregation at home. Although the pilots flew more than 15,000 sorties and destroyed more than 200 German aircraft, their most far-reaching achievement defies quantification: delivering a powerful blow to racial inequality and discrimination in American life.
