Red Tails reunited: Pioneering Tuskegee Airmen proudly look back
By: Stephen Losey, May 21, 2017
Col. Charles McGee — an original Tuskegee Airman, veteran of three wars and aviation legend — still clearly remembers the day he shot down an FW-190 German Luftwaffe fighter.
It was August 24, 1944. Then-1st Lt. McGee and 51 other pilots from the 332nd Fighter Group — the first and only unit to allow black airmen to fly in World War II — took to the sky in their distinctive red-tailed P-51 Mustang fighters. Their mission: Escort B-17s from the 5th Bomb Wing on a mission to strike Pardubice Airdrome in Czechoslovakia and the rail yards nearby.
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