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The Tuskegee Airmen

1 . The Tuskegee Airmen were significant in a way as they were an all-black fighter wing formed during World War II

2 . What makes them significant is , as stated above , that they were a World War II fighter wing that was made up primarily of African-Americans from the ground crew to its commanding officer . This was made possible by the constant lobbying of the influential National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People (NAACP ) to get the War Department to

start a program for the training and creation of an air force outfit that would be made up of black Americans (Moye 2 Essentially this is the 332nd Fighter Wing , made up of three squadrons - the 99th , 100th and 302nd Fighter Squadrons . The 301st Fighter Squadron would later join the unit after the 99th Fighter Squadron would return to the United States . The unit was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin O . Davis Jr , the son of Brigadier General Benjamin Davis Sr The younger Davis would eventually become a general himself during the postwar years . The unit 's reputation grew that they made it known through the bright red tails they sport in their mounts that is meant to strike fear among the enemy and relief among their allies (Moye 113-115 173

3 . At the time , segregation was still the norm (in the South ) and the administrations in Washington were reluctant to change anything at the time and it took considerable pressure to...