The Tuskegee Airmen, An Illustrated History: 1939-1949 [Hardcover]

Many documentaries, articles, museum exhibits, books, and movies have now treated the subject of the Tuskegee Airmen, the only black American military pilots in World War II. Most of these works have focused on their training and their subsequent accomplishments during combat. This publication goes further, using captioned photographs to trace the Airmen through the various stages of training, deployment, and combat in North Africa, Italy, and over occupied Europe. Included for the first time are depictions of the critical support roles of nonflyers: doctors, nurses, mechanics, navigators, weathermen, parachute riggers, and others, all of whom contributed to the Airmen???s success. In words and pictures, this volume makes vivid the story of the Tuskegee Airmen and the environments in which they lived, worked, played, fought, and sometimes died. This is history at its best: accurate, candid, and interesting. Authors Joe Caver, Jerome Ennels, and Dan Haulman, all accomplished and respected historians, have done an excellent job and made a major contribution by bringing the efforts and accomplishments of the Tuskegee airmen to life. ???Dr. Kenneth Werrell, author, Death from the Heavens: A History of Strategic Bombing
[The Tuskegee Airmen, An Illustrated History: 1939-1949] could well be the best of the batch because it takes a different approach to a unit that became one of the most famous of World War II . . . it's basically an encyclopedia crammed with everything you ever wanted to know about the organization ??? a superb 250-page book. ???Alvin Benn, The Montgomery Advertiser
I am impressed with the accuracy of the information and the selection of the corresponding photos. ???Vice President-Resource Development, Tuskegee Airmen Scholarship Foundation
Loaded with photos and images, you???ll get a real sense of these American heroes: where they lived, worked, played, trained, fought, and sometimes died for liberty. We need to be reminded of this importlƒ]