Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II

by J. Todd Moye

Book Overview

As the country's first African American military pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen fought in World War II on two fronts: against the Axis powers in the skies over Europe and against Jim Crow racism and segregation at home. Although the pilots flew more than 15,000 sorties and destroyed more than 200 German aircraft, their most far-reaching achievement defies quantification: delivering a powerful blow to racial inequality and discrimination in American life...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195386558
• ISBN13: 9780195386554
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.3" x 6.3"