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Today's Flight Plan

Imagine for a moment what it was like to be a fighter pilot during WWII. Especially in the European Theatre, any Allied Pilot assuredly faced Nazi pilots were quite skilled in aircraft that were capable and advanced.

If that wasn't challenging and dangerous enough, add to it racial tensions and the constant and near undeviating opinion of others that you were inferior and flawed as a human being.

This is what many of the Tuskegee Airmen faced in WWII. Not only were they facing a high mortality rate as pilots in the Air Corps, but they were facing racism as well. Why? The Tuskegee Airmen are all African American pilots.

Known also as the 'Red Tails', because their aircraft were painted with a Red Tail, this outfit of 'inferior pilots' ended up proving everyone wrong. They flew 179 bomber escort missions, with a good record of protection, losing bombers on only seven missions and a total of only 27, compared to an average of 46 among other 15AF P-51 groups. (Wikipedia)

In this episode, we hear from one of the few remaining Tuskegee Airmen alive today. His name is Charles McGee. Not only did he fight during WWII, but he also fought during the Korea and Vietnam Wars. He holds the record for the most combat mission in the US Air Force and 109.
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