In honor of the Tuskegee Airmen

I can think of no better way to honor Dr. Martin Luther King on the day we in America celebrate his birthday (His actual birthday is January 15th) then to share a video/documentary (45 minutes) from the Military Channel about the Tuskegee Airmen (National Park Service Historic Site), the African American units of the Army AirCorps who did heroic work in World War II.

There is another site, Tuskegee Airmen Inc, however I should warn you that many of the links to documents on their history page appear to be broken. But they do have good videos and images (current and history) pages.


Direct link to video on youtube

For the Tuskegee Airmen

I saw the movie Red Tails, a movie based on the story of the Tuskegee Airmen the first Black fighter squadron, last week. It was in its third week showing at the movie theaters, so I don't know if it still showing in a theater near you. If not, you might have to wait for the DVD to come out. Anyway, watching the movie gave me some motivation to go out and found some information about this famed WWII fighter squadron. There is a nice US Air Force tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen that I found on archive.org, I can no longer embed the video, but you may go to archive.org to watch the video. According to the information on archive.org, the video is in the public domain and available for download Plan on about 15 minutes to watch the video.

Take a few moments to listen to some of their stories which I found on the Tuskegee Airmen National Museum Webpage, more videos may be found there. Note the movie referred to by Claude C. Davis in the second video may be The Tuskegee Airmen (HBO, 1995):