For my term paper I chose the Tuskegee Airman. They
             will alway be the most influential air squadron during WWII. I
             think this because there where a lot racist people that did not
             want them to succeed, but they did more than just succeed. They
             became the first black Airforce pilots.
             It all started when President Roosevelt arranged a meeting
             in September 1940 with three African-American leaders and members
             of the Army and Navy. During the meeting, the leaders emphasized
             three points:(1)equal opportunity for jobs in the defense
             industry, (2)impartial administration of the new draftlaw, and
             (3)an opportunity for qualified blacks to learn to fly in
             A few days later after the meeting, the War Department
             issued a policy directives stating that black men generally would
             be admitted into the armed force in numbers equivalent to their
             percentage in the civilian population.
             But it was not until a couple months after the meeting in
             December 1940, that the Army Air Corps submitted a plan for the
             experiment to establish an all-black fighter squadron.
             The plan was not official until July 19, 1941 when Major
             General Walter Weaver, commander of the U.S. Army's Southeastern
             Air Corps spoke at the Tuskegee Institute Campus.*2* It was
             then that 13 black men became the first black pilot trainees.
             Most of the trainees were college graduates, including a
             policeman, an army officer, a factory inspector, and several
             young men who were fresh out of college.
             Also, all of the men were trained at Chanute Air Field in
             Ratoul, Illinois at the US Army Air Corps Technical Training
             School. The men of this first squadron were so smart that they
             established a grade point average never equaled before or after
             A few miles from the Tuskegee Campus, two air fields were
             built for the training of the new cadets. The two air fields were
             Moton Field and the Tuskegee Army A...