Heroes of the Skies S1E4: The Tuskegee Airmen
- Aired: 2012-10-11
- Time: 20:00:00
- Runtime: 60 minutes
Overview
The Tuskegee Airmen were young, gifted, and black but the US Army refused them key positions. Until intense pressure from African-American activist groups pushed President Roosevelt to initiate a Blacks-only fighter pilot training program in Tuskegee, Alabama. What began as a revolutionary experiment gave birth to a potent fighting force that would help take Nazi Germany out of the skies and, in the process, change the course of American history.