Tuskegee airmen facts
The Tuskegee airmen once shot down three German jets in a single day
Thurgood Marshall, the future Supreme Court justice, got his start defending Tuskegee bomber trainees. The Airmen might have never gotten off the ground without Eleanor Roosevelt’s help.
A former Tuskegee airman almost shot the late Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi in a showdown outside of Tripoli in 1970.
Three Tuskegee airmen went on to become generals.
Thurgood Marshall, the future Supreme Court justice, got his start defending Tuskegee bomber trainees. The Airmen might have never gotten off the ground without Eleanor Roosevelt’s help.
A former Tuskegee airman almost shot the late Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi in a showdown outside of Tripoli in 1970.
Three Tuskegee airmen went on to become generals.