The Tuskegee Airmen were founded in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama when the U.S. Army Air Corp began a program to train Black servicemembers as Air Corps Cadets.
When the Second World War finally ended, a Martin B-26 Marauder, named Flak-Bait by its first commander, had flown and survived 207 missions. Five of these missions were decoys to draw enemy fire.
After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined the Army and was going through basic training, believing he would be sent ...