On July 19, 1941, the U.S. Air Force began a program in Tuskegee, Alabama to train black Americans as military pilots. At the time, the Army was segregated, and only whites were allowed to fly. In the five years that followed, 992 black pilots graduated,
Originally created in 1997 as a Christmas gift for her father, the public's reaction was so overwhelming, that Phyllis Gomer-Douglas decided to not only keep the site online, but to continue to update it.
"Tuskegee is more than a town located in Macon County, Alabama.
"They said we didn't have the intelligence, the demeanor, the courage to be combat pilots.
Frank Ambrose is a professional photographer who began his career as an Air Force photographer in 1943.
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