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Tuskegee Airmen

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Today I would like to honor the Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black air core in the military. These have been one of Nayte's heroes for some time. We have a signed painting and two models of their aircraft, the P51 Mustang, as well as books and magazines about them. They were trailblazers and proved their worth time and time again that Blacks were as capable as Whites in flying successful missions. They were part of the reason Nayte wanted to fly in the Air Force.




Here is the link to the wikipedia page about this man, Herbert Carter, whom Nayte had the honor of meeting in real life a couple of times.


To learn more, here is an article from history.com that includes a video.

Also, there are two movies made about this squadron called the Tuskegee Airmen (on HBO) and Red Tails (on Disney+) to see it unfold. (Tuskegee Airmen is the better movie in our opinion)

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