Friday, February 3, 2012

The U.S. pilots who risked their lives against the Nazis... only to be treated like dirt on their return to segregated America

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The first black military pilots in the U.S. spent the war fighting on two fronts. Not only were they risking their lives battling the German fighters as they escorted Allied bombers, but, on the ground, they were contending with the shocking racism of their fellow Americans.


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