Pilots from Tuskegee ( The Tuskegee Airmen ) is a television film by Robert Markowitz about the eponymous group of African-American pilots who participated in World War II .
| Pilots from Taskigi | |
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| The tuskegee airmen | |
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| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Robert Markowitz |
| In the main cast | Lawrence Fishborn Courtney B. Vance John Lithgow Kyuba Gooding Jr. . |
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| Duration | |
| A country |  USA |
| Tongue | and |
| Year | 1995 |
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Story
The film is based on real events. The third year of World War II is raging. The theater of war extends from Europe to Africa and the Pacific. In the USA, on the basis of the Tuskegee Air Force, colored pilots are trained - the best of the best representatives of the "lower" race, each of whom, before becoming a cadet, has come a long way, full of humiliation and contempt from white fellow citizens. The cadets are adequately trained, but the command is in no hurry to send them to the army, not believing in the possibility of color pilots.
Everything changes when the country's first lady, the wife of President Roosevelt, attends a flight school. Mrs. Roosevelt flies in a circle above the airfield of the base with one of the colored pilots and this fundamentally affects the fate of all cadets - they are sent to the army, fighting the Germans in Africa. And although pilots from Taskigi are entrusted only with the task of destroying ground targets, which for fighters, to put it mildly, is not specialized, the guys are doing their job diligently.
Soon, a group from Taskigi was transferred to Western Europe, where US bomber aircraft suffered huge losses from Luftwaffe fighters. Here the group receives the brand new P-51 Mustang fighters and already in the first combat flight it knocks down several German Messershmites Bf-109. At first, the attitude of the white pilots of the "Flying Fortresses" to the group from Taskigi leaves much to be desired, but with each new sortie, the colored pilots gain more and more respect.
In the end, when planning a raid on the capital of the Third Reich - Berlin, the pilots of the bombers ask the command to give them, as the escort group, the fighters from Taskigi - at that time the best US Air Force fighter group in Northern Italy.
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Links
- Boedeker, Hal. Black Fliers Rise Above Prejudice . Orlando Sentinel (August 16, 1995). Date of appeal February 16, 2018.
- King, Susan. Mission Accomplished: A Tuskegee Airman Recalls the Rejections Along the Way to the Reality: An HBO Film About an Ignored Chapter of History . Los Angeles Times (August 20, 1995). Date of appeal February 16, 2018.
- . A story of racism taking flight . (August 25, 1995). Date of appeal February 16, 2018.
- . 'The Tuskegee Airmen' [Review] . Los Angeles Times (February 11, 1996). Date of appeal February 16, 2018.