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Red Tails An Oral History of the Tuskegee Airmen by John B Holway
Red Tails An Oral History of the Tuskegee Airmen by John B Holway
Soft Cover
319 pages
Copyright 2011
CONTENTS
Introduction vii
Forewordxi
Prologue1
Chapter 1 Black Wings3
Chapter 2 Civilian Pilot Training19
Chapter 3 The Tuskegee Experiment23
Chapter 4 The 99th41
Chapter 5 Combat59
Chapter 6 Triumph at Anzio79
Chapter 7 The 332nd93
Chapter 8 Naples119
Chapter 9 Mutiny at Walterboro133
Chapter 10 The 15th Air Force143
Chapter 11 Red Tails155
Chapter 12 Disaster at Memmingen183
Chapter 13 Summer Heat 193
Chapter 14 Ground Wars209
Chapter 15 Winter225
Chapter 16 The New Year 237
Chapter 17 Rockets Over Berlin247
Chapter 18 Victory255
Chapter 19 Mutiny265
Chapter 20 Korea and Vietnam279
Chapter 21 Final Triumph 295
Epilogue309
Sources311
Index313
ON THE BACK COVER
The first group of African-American pilots in the history of the U.S. military, the Tuskegee Airmen had to battle discrimination at home before they could join the fight abroad. Trained at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute, they overcame racial bias during World War ll as the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the Army Air Corps. The pilots of the 332nd made their reputation escorting B-17s and B-24s on long bombing runs over Central Europe. Nicknamed "Red Tails" for the crimson tips of their P-47 Thunderbolt fighters, the airmen were also known as the "Red-Tailed Angels" by their admiring bomber crews.
Based on extensive interviews with members of the Tuskegee Airmen, this inspiring book offers insights into the prejudices the Red Tails had to overcome and recaptures the drama of wartime service. As veteran Charles McGee noted, "The story of the Tuskegee Airmen isn't a black story, it's an American history story, and the youth of America need to know about it." The primary source for the George Lucas film, Red Tails, this volume includes sixteen pages of historic black-and-white photographs and was praised by Library Journal as "an important addition to any African-American history and/or military studies collection."
Dover (2012) updated and revised republication of Red Tails, Black Wings: The Men of America's Black Air Force, Yucca Tree Press, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1997.
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