How did the Tuskegee Airmen Influence Society, well they influenced society through many ways but most importantly they influenced it through: How they had to fight diversity in WW2 in America, also how they had to fight diversity in Europe, and through how they were one of the best fighter pilots of WW2 proving that no matter what color you were you could become a great pilot.
So how did they have to fight diversity at home, well being the time and age of America we still had not changed much in the way of racism and bias-ism. It started for them around late 1930s, when a group of young black Americans wanted to become pilots in the United States military which was completely unheard of, because black Americas “couldn 't fly and fight” …show more content…
And some of these men were sent to the Tuskegee Institute and it was completely segregated no other men were white in the training program and the training was designed to be tough, but that was how it was for everyone. After completing ground school, they had 60 hours of flight training to do which also included solo flights. During all of this there were 13 men that went through the program, and only five of them made it and earned their wings in March 1942, which one of them included Captain Benjamin O. Davis, Jr who had graduated West Point even while being shunned the whole three years. And his father General Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., was the only black line officer in the U.S. Army at that time, and his son would soon join him as the second black line officer as he moved through the ranks. At the beginning of all of this they couldn 't used the exact Tuskegee facility because they didn 't have adequate facilities for the students, so they were assigned to the 99th Fighter Squadron who trained at Chanute Air Base which during the training for that they were training the flight support, who during this the Chanute instructors realized that their black students were extremely motivated and would cause no trouble even if they were in the white classes, and they …show more content…
During which they started proving themselves as even better pilots, during which the bomber crews started to praise the pilots for how great of a job they were doing, unlike some of the white escort divisions which had followed Nazi pilots and had gotten many bomber crews killed. Unlike the units that had left the bombers, the Tuskegee Airman had always remembered to stay with the bombers and wait for the Nazi pilots to attack before engaging, which saved countless lives, and gave them great respect to the bomber pilots. During one mission in 1945 while they were flying the new Mustangs, they were escorting a bomber unit over Berlin, about have way through they were suppose to be relived from escorting and were not, so instead of leaving the bombers to themselves they went all the way to Berlin and back with no reinforcements, during this mission they were rewarded the Distinguished Unit Citation was awarded. During this fight they had encounter a squad of ME 262s which were the most superior planes on the battlefield and in the war, why because well they were jets, and the only jets on the battlefield in WW2. During this battle 1st Lt. Roscoe C. Brown engaged one of them and with two other men he was able to
So how did they have to fight diversity at home, well being the time and age of America we still had not changed much in the way of racism and bias-ism. It started for them around late 1930s, when a group of young black Americans wanted to become pilots in the United States military which was completely unheard of, because black Americas “couldn 't fly and fight” …show more content…
And some of these men were sent to the Tuskegee Institute and it was completely segregated no other men were white in the training program and the training was designed to be tough, but that was how it was for everyone. After completing ground school, they had 60 hours of flight training to do which also included solo flights. During all of this there were 13 men that went through the program, and only five of them made it and earned their wings in March 1942, which one of them included Captain Benjamin O. Davis, Jr who had graduated West Point even while being shunned the whole three years. And his father General Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., was the only black line officer in the U.S. Army at that time, and his son would soon join him as the second black line officer as he moved through the ranks. At the beginning of all of this they couldn 't used the exact Tuskegee facility because they didn 't have adequate facilities for the students, so they were assigned to the 99th Fighter Squadron who trained at Chanute Air Base which during the training for that they were training the flight support, who during this the Chanute instructors realized that their black students were extremely motivated and would cause no trouble even if they were in the white classes, and they …show more content…
During which they started proving themselves as even better pilots, during which the bomber crews started to praise the pilots for how great of a job they were doing, unlike some of the white escort divisions which had followed Nazi pilots and had gotten many bomber crews killed. Unlike the units that had left the bombers, the Tuskegee Airman had always remembered to stay with the bombers and wait for the Nazi pilots to attack before engaging, which saved countless lives, and gave them great respect to the bomber pilots. During one mission in 1945 while they were flying the new Mustangs, they were escorting a bomber unit over Berlin, about have way through they were suppose to be relived from escorting and were not, so instead of leaving the bombers to themselves they went all the way to Berlin and back with no reinforcements, during this mission they were rewarded the Distinguished Unit Citation was awarded. During this fight they had encounter a squad of ME 262s which were the most superior planes on the battlefield and in the war, why because well they were jets, and the only jets on the battlefield in WW2. During this battle 1st Lt. Roscoe C. Brown engaged one of them and with two other men he was able to