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Did you know that the Army<br />
had refused to use black men<br />
as pilots in the U.S. Air Force?<br />
Of course, we refused not to be<br />
heard or recognized and so due<br />
to a pending lawsuit the Army<br />
conceded but still had to separate<br />
these pilots (the Tuskegee<br />
Airmen) as a group and hence<br />
started the experiment which<br />
involved training this segregated<br />
unit of black men. The<br />
group was founded in 1941<br />
and was trained for aerial combat<br />
in the U.S. armed forces,<br />
flying with distinction in skill<br />
and dedication during World<br />
War II. They were the first African-American<br />
soldiers to successfully<br />
complete their training<br />
and enter the Army Air<br />
Corps back then and yielded<br />
nearly 1000 aviators as America’s<br />
first African American military<br />
pilots.<br />
Charles Alfred Anderson was<br />
the first African American to<br />
earn his pilot’s license, and became<br />
the first flight instructor<br />
when the Civilian Pilot Training<br />
Program (CPTP) was formed at<br />
Tuskegee Institute in October<br />
1939.<br />
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