Operating out of an airbase in Italy is the 99th Pursuit Squadron, flying P-51 Mustang fighter-bombers with distinctive painted red tails. These pilots represented the legendary Tuskegee Airmen ...

The Tuskegee Airmen would later earn the nickname “Red Tails” because they painted the tip of their P-51 Mustang bombers red to distinguish themselves from enemy aircraft and avoid friendly fire.

His World War II P-51 Mustang is painted ... were underperforming. The airmen responded by shooting down more enemy planes. By 1945, the airmen, also known as Red Tails because of how their ...

The Tuskegee Airmen, known as the “Red Tails” were the nation's ... of all the bomber escorts in the war. They flew P-47 Thunderbolt, P-51 Mustang and other fighters to escort American bombers ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen and earned honors for his combat heroism, has died. He was 100.

and people of color once worked together to build fighter planes during World War II — a full-scale model of a P-51 Mustang stands on display as a tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed all ...

The unit sometimes known as the Tuskegee Airmen for where they trained in Alabama or the Red Tails because of the red tips of their P-51 Mustangs.“I did not recognize at the time the gravity of ...