The Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History 1939-1949

 Caver, Joseph, Jerome Ennels and Daniel Haulman. The Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History 1939-1949. 2011. 230p. ISBN 978-1-58838-244-3.

The Tuskegee Airmen were a fabled group of pilots and crewmen who served with distinction in the Second World War. With a segregated military service, African-American pilots could not join regular units. Several programs to train African-American pilots were set up to increase the number of men capable of flying fighters and bombers. As war exploded across Europe and Asia, it became even more essential to ensure that the nation was producing as many pilots as possible. Schools were set up around the United States, with the most famous at Tuskegee airfield in Alabama. 

Over the course of the war, Tuskegee airmen earned honors and distinctions for valorous service. They were among the first to encounter and shoot down German jet fighters, and they participated in most of the campaigns from the landing in Africa in 1942 to the final bombing of Germany in 1945. Told through rarely seen photos documenting the process of training and preparing for combat, this book helps to illustrate an often forgotten part of our military history.