A comic book that tells the story of the first African American pilots and technicians who valiantly went up against the Messerschmitt and Junker planes.
For those that would become the Tuskegee Airmen, it all began on September 16, 1940, even before the United States entered the war, when President Roosevelt authorized African-American technicians and pilots to join the Army Air Corps. Barely a year later, his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, moved to the base in Tuskegee, a small town in Alabama with barely 4,000 inhabitants at the time, and home to these new units. “Time” magazine would soon devote an article to the “phenomenon” of the first Black men to be integrated into the US Army Air Forces…
The gates of history were now open for these men, even though very few people on the other side of the Atlantic had much faith in them. In all, some 1,000 African American pilots would undergo training during World War II, conducting more than 1,500 missions over North Africa, the Mediterranean and Europe. Their recognition was such that their leader, Colonel Benjamin Oliver Davis, became the first Black US Air Force General.
Many decades later, President Clinton authorized the construction of a museum dedicated to their memory in 1998. In 2007, the Tuskegee Airmen were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor in the United States.
Comic book. “Dreaming Eagles”. Authors, Garth Ennis and Simon Coleby. Éditions Paquet. Cockpit Collection. EAN: 978288324149