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Black Pilots Tuskegee To Air Heroes
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keywords: wwii, home front, italian theater, pursuit squadron, tuskegee airmen, black fighter pilots, black fighter pilots, african-american fighter pilots, vultee b-13 trainer, p-40 warhawk fighter
Synopsis: Pilot training for African-Americans in Tuskegee Alabama and Michigan to their activities as a highly decorated pursuit squadron in the Italian Theater of WWII....(read more)
- Date: 1940's
- Duration: 00:07:19
- Sound: No
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Tuskegee Alabama, Italy
Black Pilots - Tuskegee To Air Heroes
Group of five Black pilots standing near a plane at Tuskegee, Alabama. Cadets and instructor walk to Vultee BT-13 trainer aircraft on flight line. A BT-13 take-off. Flight of three BT-13s in formation in flight over airfield. A single BT-13 in flight and landing. Plane taxing on flight line. Instructor and Cadet climbs out of cockpit of BT-13 trainer aircraft. Instructor pilot and trainee Cadet have WWII parachutes on. Instructor and Cadet near wing of plane. Instructor use hands to describe a flight maneuver as Cadet watches and listens intently.
African-American ground crew members comes out of building at Oscoda Army Air Field Michigan (misspelled as Oseoda Michigan) with belts of ammunition. Shows ground crew arming Curtiss P-40 Warhawk aircraft with belts of machine gun ammunition and attaching bombs. Group of Black Pilots listen to Instructor and fit oxygen masks to their face. Shows African-American pilots climbing into cockpits of P-40 Warhawk fighter planes. Each pilot has on a parachute and a "Mae West" life vest. Planes taxi onto runway and takes off. Flight of P-40's over air field. P-40's diving, strafing and skip-bombing. P-40 landing. Instructor and Black pilots check strafing target.
Shows map of Italy. Activity of first Black pursuit squadron in Italy during World War II. Ground crews arm P-40's in Italy. African-American pilots looking at map. CU of bombs being attached to planes, bomb fuze being screwed into nose of bomb. Pilots climb into cockpits of P-40 Warhawk fighters and take off on mission over Italy. Shows ground explosion of Italian targets. CU of three African-American fighter pilots in WWII.
