The Tuskegee Airmen:  On Freedom's Wings, Bound for Glory

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The Pennsylvania Veterans Museum presents, The Tuskegee Airmen:  On Freedom’s Wings, Bound for Glory.  The Tuskegee Airmen played a pivotal role in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, as they were members of the African-American aviation units after President Franklin Roosevelt pledged in 1940 that these unites would be created.

Racism and segregation in the 1940s, however, produced a negative attitude toward blacks in the armed forces; thus the crews were often not respected.

Members of these unites were referred to as “Tuskegee Airmen” because their units were trained at segregated training facilities in Tuskegee , Alabama .

Despite these obstacles, the Tuskegee Airmen produced some of America ’s greatest achievements during World War II, including escorting long-range, heavy strategic bombers on approximately 200 missions throughout Europe without losing a single American bomber to enemy aircraft – an accomplishment that never has been matched.