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Author Homan, Lynn M.

Title Black Knights : the story of the Tuskegee airmen / by Lynn M. Homan and Thomas Reilly ; foreword by Louis R. Purnell.

Publication Info. Gretna, La. : Pelican Pub. Co., 2001.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  940.544 HOM    Storage
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  940.5449 HOMAN    Check Shelf
Description 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-324) and index.
Contents Foreword -- Preface -- [ch.] 1. Black men can't fly -- [ch.] 2. The opening of the door -- [ch.] 3. Tuskegee -- [ch.] 4. Send us your best men -- [ch.] 5. Segregation goes on ... separate but not equal -- [ch.] 6. To war, to war ... finally -- [ch.] 7. On to Italy -- [ch.] 8. In the skies over Europe -- [ch.] 9. Red tails -- [ch.] 10. The war ges on -- [ch.] 11. The 332nd scores big -- [ch.] 12. The end in sight -- [ch.] 13. The birth of the 477th -- [ch.] 14. The Freeman Field mutiny -- [ch.] 15. The Commander : Benjamin O. Davis Jr. -- [ch.] 16. The war is over -- [ch.] 17. The unsung warriors -- [ch.] 18. The Tuskegee experience -- [ch.] 19. Black birds -- appendix. Roster of pilot training graduates at Tuskegee Army Air Field -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subject United States. Air Force -- African Americans -- History -- Pictorial works.
Air pilots, Military -- United States -- History -- Pictorial works.
Air pilots, Military -- Alabama -- Tuskegee -- History -- Pictorial works.
Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.) -- Pictorial works.
Added Author Reilly, Thomas.
ISBN 1565548280
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