Tuskegee Airmen In World War II, the majority of soldiers, pilots, etc. were white Americans. It was not until the Tuskegee Experience, later known as the Tuskegee Airmen, did African-Americans play a large role in the war. These men got their name from the base where they were stationed, the Tuskegee Army Airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama. Men came from all over the country, Florida, Illinois, California, and decided to station here because the Jim Crow laws, or the discrimination against blacks, did not permit them to have any high authority. There were few opportunities for young black men, and they were denied military leadership because people thought they lacked the necessary qualifications for combat duty, because they were black. These people had no confidence in these men, thinking they lacked skill, courage, intelligence, and patriotism, so they called them the Tuskegee Experience. Roles …show more content…
Their main job was to escort American bomber planes, and every man just wanted to defend his country. Of all the airmen, they included pilots, navigators, bombardiers, maintenance and support staff, instructors, and all the personnel who kept the planes in the air. As an all black regiment, they were all trained by blacks, trained with blacks, and flew with blacks. Whites did not want to be associated with them. They all fought hard, even volunteering to be in the military. They were doing whatever it took to be more than just an all black regiment. They wanted to be involved with the whites in the