The Tuskegee Airmen History And Chronology In Text And Photographs

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A History Of The Tuskegee Airmen

Tuskegee Airmen Chronology

News Stories

Historic Photographs

INTRODUCTION

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first black

pilots in American military history, those

who were stationed at the bases where

they trained or from which they flew,

those who belonged to the organizations

to which the pilots belonged, or those

who belonged to the support organizations for those flying units. The

pilots were called Tuskegee Airmen

because they trained at airfields around

Tuskegee during World War II. The

Tuskegee Airmen Incorporated uses the

term DOTA (Documented Original

Tuskegee Airman) to define anyone,

“man or woman, military or civilian, black

or white, officer or enlisted,” who served

at any of the air bases at which the

Tuskegee-trained pilots trained or flew, or

in any of the Army Air Force units “stemming from the ‘Tuskegee

Experience’ between the years 1941 and 1949.”

The Tuskegee experience began in 1941,

when the first military black flying unit was

activated, and ended in 1949, when the

last segregated all-black flying units were

inactivated. Certainly there have been a

great many black pilots who have served

in the Air Force since 1949, but unless

they served in Tuskegee Airmen units or

at Tuskegee Airmen bases between the

years 1941 and 1949, they were not

technically Tuskegee Airmen. There were

no “second-generation Tuskegee

Airmen,” because during the years

1941-1949, there were no fathers and

sons who both took part in the program.

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