Looking forward to seeing the movie "Red Tails" which will be released tomorrow and shows the times of the famed World War II Tuskegee Airmen. A crack group of US pilots and service personnel who really cracked the color barrier in the US military. They were all black.
We are in Biloxi, Mississippi, right now and this place turns out to ave had a part to play in the Red Tails.
The January 19th Biloxi Sun Herald "Keesler played part in the real-life Red Tails" by Kat Bergeron.
The movie centers on the exploits of the 332nd Fighter Group, the all-black fighter squadron based in Ramitelli, Italy, during he war, shattering a myth that blacks could not fly or command as well as their white counterparts.
Time constraints did not allow focus on the Keesler Air Force Base connection to the group. But there was one.
More to Come. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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