Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site

Unabashed plug for Red Tails, the 2012 movie about the Tuskegee Airmen.  It was a great film that captured the World War II tensions on segregation in the military and how hard black aviators worked to gain respect from everyone they dealt with in the Army Air Corps.

This small museum is located in the original hangar the Tuskegee Airmen used while they trained at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama.










Tuskegee Airmen trained
in P-17 biplanes.











Packing a parachute
was a necessity.





















Eric checks out
the simulator.



Graduation to the Piper Cub before the Bell P-39 Airacobras,
Republic P-47 Thunderbolts & P-51 Mustangs.














Mechanics tools
were kept in rolling
cabinets.












The Cadets'
Waiting Room











Poster  of German Uniforms... 
Know Your Enemy












There were magazines &
newspapers for the cadets to read.











Administration Office 

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Requisitions, paychecks...
What the Army Air Corps runs on.



The Tuskegee Airmen Historic Site is run with donations.  
Wow!  All this and you name the price of admission.  

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