Fliers of a P-51 Mustang Group
Pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group at Ramitelli Airfield, Italy, from left to right, Lt. Dempsey W. Morgan, Lt. Carroll S. Woods, Lt. Robert H. Nelron, Jr., Captain Andrew D. Turner, and Lt. Clarence P. Lester. Before 1940, African Americans were barred from flying for the military. Civil rights organizations and the black press exerted pressure that resulted in the formation of an all African-American pursuit squadron based in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1941. They became known as the Tuskegee Airmen.
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