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September 1947 nearly 30 years annual 1949 July 1941 one day 1ST SESSION 1941 1972 Years later 1924 June MARCH 10, 2005 Sixty-six 1946

World War II the ‘‘Black Redtail Angels post-World War II

the Air Force

1259 IH Detroit the United States Michigan Fort Wayne New York Alabama Ohio the United States Mint Public Enterprise Dayton Colorado Springs the United States Mint North Africa Florida Tuskegee Yugoslavia the United States Air Force Italy Bronze Stars Colorado Pennsylvania United States Sicily the United States of America

Europe Black 7

German White American Italian Americans

Tuskegee Airmen the Armed Forces Fighter Group Air Force Congress Senate 332nd Nation SEC the Department of War APPROPRIATIONS THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Armed Forces of the United States Tactical Air Force Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. National 6 Scholarship Fund Army Air Field United States Air Force Air Force Gunnery Meet the 332d Fighter Group the Red Star the 332nd Fighter Group the Army War College the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Flying Crosses House of Representa- States Military Academy Merit the 477th Composite Group Presidential Unit the Committee on Financial Services Army Air Corps 301st Tuskegee Tuskegee Insti- NAACP United States Air Force Moton Tactical Air 302nd Howard University Theus 477th Bomber Group

332d Yancy Williams Dwight D. H. R. 1259 Franklin D. Roosevelt BRADY RANGEL Roosevelt MEEKS Benjamin O. Davis Jr. CUMMINGS PAYNE CARSON CORRINE Benjamin O. FILNER CHRISTENSEN Davis Jr. HASTINGS United 19 Benjamin O. Davis OWENS Daniel ‘‘ SCHIFF Ph.D. Lucius William J. Clinton

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