Contributions Of The Tuskegee Airmen In World War II

Contributions of The Tuskegee Airmen in World War II The Tuskegee Airmen is the identification name for the African Americans who went to fight in world war II as the US military pilots. They worked as fighters, bombers and other war related works (Hunter 2015). They were trained at Moton Field in the United States and educated at Tuskegee University in Alabama. Tuskegee Airmen were subject to discrimination since the American military was racially segregated. The Tuskegee Airmen contributed a lot in world war II. Before the World War II many white Americans believed that they were much superior to the blacks. Thus, the blacks were not allowed to perform things like nursing, voting, go to wars, piloting and many other tasks. During the war, an All-African American institute was developed in Tuskegee to train all black pilots. Thus, this allowed them to be deployed to war zones alongside white men since they could now fly fighter planes and work as bombers.

During the war, they showed that blacks could do what white men could do even in challenging situations. They demonstrated to be good fighters by fighting and performing their duties well despite many challenges they faced during the war. For instance, when they were deployed to North Africa, they were assigned old and less advanced planes which were not easy to operate, maneuver and were much slower than those of the Germans. Despite these challenges, they were able to largely impair the German army and by April 1945, they had destroyed German possessions and infrastructure like the rails, transport vehicles and a large number of their planes. This forced the Germans to