Tuskegee Airmen Research Papers

The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of African American military fighting pilots who fought in World War II. The Tuskegee Airmen formed the 332nd Fighter Group and 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Force. The Tuskegee Airmen a group of African American military pilots changed the military perspective on African American pilots during a racial injustice time and would help future African Americans become military pilots.

The fight for African Americans to play a role in the US military has been a conflict for centuries. African Americans had limited opportunities to play a role in the US military due to racial discrimination, quotas and just being flat out rejected. The US military limited roles for African Americans because

These leaders believed that African Americans did not carry the fulfilment to become a successful military fighting pilot. With the help and fight done by African Americans,on April 3,1939, President Roosevelt signed and approved the Public Law 18 which would cause a expansion in the Army Air Corps. The law was passed to help any African American wanting to have an advancement in their military careers such as pilot instead of being a janitor or cook. Due to the Public Law 18 being passed, the Army decided that they would train a small group of African American soldiers to see if they were built to become pilots under one condition, they would have to fight the adversity from the south. The only to become pilots were to train down south in Tuskegee,

This counted as an experiment to see if African Americans can truly out task white soldiers in the military. With the experiment checked off, now the Tuskegee Airmen needed somewhere to train. In that same year the military picked the Tuskegee Institute which was Tuskegee University, to help them train. The school included preceptors who skilled in engineering and tech, perfect climate to fly in all year round and strong racism to fight through. With building this institution together both teachers and students, when it was over they called it “Moton Field”, after Robert Russa Moton, the second president of Tuskegee Institute after the death of the first president Booker T. Washington. In 1941 Tuskegee Institute got the ok sign from the Army Air Force to operate as a flight school. Tuskegee Institute is the only African American institution to allow their soldier to build, own, develop and control their own facility. Since the creation of Moton Field, 2,000 African Americans have completed training and 429 enlisted men and 47 officers have became Tuskegee Airmen. With completion of training as Tuskegee Institute, ¾ of African American have qualified to become pilots, while the ¼ of the African Americans went to become navigators. During World War II the 99th Pursuit Squadron would change its name to the