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Books

BOOKS BY TUSKEGEE AIRMEN

 

I WANTED TO BE A PILOT: The Making of a Tuskegee Airman

Franklin J. Macon and Elizabeth G. Harper

 

A-TRAIN, MEMOIR OF A TUSKEGEE AIRMAN

Lt. Colonel Charles Dryden

 

THE FREEMEN FIELD MUTINY – Tuskegee Airmen Story

Lt. Colonel James Warren

 

TUSKEGEE AIRMAN, The Biography of Charles E. McGee,,

Air Force Fighter Combat Record Holder

Charlene McGee-Smith

 

BENJAMIN O. DAVIS, JR., AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Benjamin O. Davis

 

TUSKEGEE ARMY AIR FIELD, 1941-1945

Chicago DODO  Chapter TAI

 

RED TAIL CAPTURED, RED TAIL FREE: Memoir of a

Tuskegee Airman and POW

Lt. Colonel Alexander Jefferson with Lewis H. Carlson

 

‘SURVIVAL! A Purple Heart Tuskegee Airman

John Steward Sloan, Sr.

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BOOKS ABOUT TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, BLACKS IN AVIATION

 

LONELY EAGLES: The Story of America’s Black Air Force

(Tuskegee Airmen) in World War II

Robert A. Rose

 

TUSKEGEE AIRMEN: American Heroes

Lynn M. Homan and Thomas Reilly

 

Black Knights The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen

Lynn M. Homan and Thomas Reilly

 

RED TAILS  BLACK WINGS: The Men of America’s Black Air Force

John Holway

 

332nd FIGHTER GROUP: TUSKEGEE AIRMEN (Aviation Elite Units)

Chri Buckhjolz

 

FREEDOM FLYERS: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II

(Oxford Oral History Series). Todd J. Moye

 

BLACK WINGS: Courageous Stories of African Americans

 in Aviation and Space History

Von Hardesty

 

TUSKEGEE AIRMEN: The Men Who Changed a Nation

Charles E. Francis and Adolph Caso

 

DOUBLE V: The Civil Rights Struggle of the Tuskegee Airmen

Lawrence P. Scott and William M. Womack

 

BLACK AVIATOR: The Story of William J. Powell

William J. Powell

 

VIEW FROM THE BACK OF THE BUS DURING WWII AND BEYOND

Dempsey J. Travis

 

BLACK FLIGHT – BREAKING BARRIERS

Dr. Albert Forsyth

 

SOARING ABOVE SETBACKS

Janet Harmon Bragg, Marjorie M. Kriz

 

American patriots: the story of Blacks in the military from the Revolution to Desert Storm. 

Buckley, Gail Lumet. 

Publication: New York: Random House. 2001 

Liberators: fighting on two fronts in World War II. 

Potter, Lou. 

Publication: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1992 

Segregated skies: all-Black combat squadrons of WWII. 

Sandler, Stanley. 

Publication: Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1992 

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BOOKS ABOUT FEMALES IN AVIATION

 

QUEEN BESS, Daredevil Aviator

Doris L.  Rich

Redtails

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