https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1 African American Pilots in WWII en-us 2016-10-25 13:32:51 UTC 2023-08-03 00:15:47 UTC hello@padlet.com gretawarmbier https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133294907 2016-10-26 12:49:51 UTC https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133294907 gretawarmbier https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133295308 - segregated because of Jim Crow laws
- armed forces = not officially integrated until 1948; although, US joined the WWII effort following the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor]]> 2016-10-26 12:50:59 UTC https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133295308 219015 https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133295829 Many African American pilots were learning to fly planes as well as fighting for their own civil rights. This was a very tough situation. ]]> 2016-10-26 12:52:33 UTC https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133295829 gretawarmbier https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133296199 2016-10-26 12:53:33 UTC https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133296199 219015 https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133297000 -All of the planes that these pilots flew were painted with red tails
-This tried to show that these pilots were all the same even if the Tuskegee Airmen were a different skin color.]]> 2016-10-26 12:55:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133297000 gretawarmbier https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133297077 1941: 4,000 African American soldiers in US armed forces
1945: 1.2 mill.]]> 2016-10-26 12:56:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133297077 219030 https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133297702 Showed the world that they were just as brave and patriotic as their fellow white pilots. This started to set the scene for  the civil rights movement.

]]> 2016-10-26 12:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133297702 gretawarmbier https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133297720 Only 66 of the Red Tails died in combat - lowest loss record of any escort fighter group]]> 2016-10-26 12:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133297720 219015 https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133298293 -Awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation for destroying 3 German planes on their way to Berlin
-8 Purple Hearts
-14 Bronze Stars
3 Distinguished Unit Citations
-96 Distinguished Flying Crosses]]> 2016-10-26 12:59:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133298293 gretawarmbier https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133298349 The Red Tails used their flying fineness to gain the respect of their fellow white pilots...eventually even white pilots requested to be escorted by the African American pilots, which was unheard of for that time period.

]]> 2016-10-26 13:00:05 UTC https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133298349 gretawarmbier https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133299640 -first African American with a commercial pilots license 
-flew first lady Eleanor Roosevelt 
-brought attention to Tuskegee cause]]> 2016-10-26 13:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133299640 219015 https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133301873 2016-10-26 13:08:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133301873 gretawarmbier https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133302097 Given by President Bush]]> 2016-10-26 13:09:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133302097 gretawarmbier https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133311244 This photo of a black man with a white woman didn't settle well with most people at the time; it's especially important that the lady was the FLOTUS]]> 2016-10-26 13:30:45 UTC https://padlet.com/gretawarmbier/m7xztmnqo0j1/wish/133311244