Mystic_Rune, on 09 February 2013 - 09:05 PM, said:
WIKIPEDIA is not an accredited source of information.
Mystic_Rune, on 09 February 2013 - 09:05 PM, said:
WIKIPEDIA is not an accredited source of information.
ok prove it wrong
as per the USAF then called USAAC
http://www.af.mil/sh...-070207-059.pdf
109 Victories: Aerial Victory Credits of the Tuskegee Airmen
Dr. Daniel L. Haulman
Air Force Historical Research Agency
Jan. 27, 2006
The Tuskegee Airmen were the only African-American pilots in combat in the
Army Air Forces during World War II. They were members of the 332d Fighter Group
and its assigned 99th, 100th, 301st, and 302d Fighter Squadrons. This paper will focus
on their aerial victory credits. It is based on primary source documents, including general
orders and unit histories, archived where I work at the Air Force Historical Research
Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama.
The most famous of the 332d Fighter Group commanders was Col. Benjamin O.
Davis Jr. His father had been the first African-American general in the U.S. Army.
Partly because he was a graduate of West Point, Colonel Davis had already been
commander of the 99th Fighter Squadron, the first black flying unit in the Army Air
Corps. The squadron was more than a year older than the group.
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The 99th Fighter Squadron deployed from Tuskegee, Alabama, to French
Morocco in April 1943. Originally flying the P-40 Warhawk aircraft, the 99th Fighter
Squadron began combat operations from Tunisia on June 2. While serving under the
Twelfth Air Force, the 99th and other fighter and bomber squadrons attacked enemy
installations in Tunisia and Sicily and on the island of Pantelleria in the Mediterranean
Sea. The defenders of Pantelleria, heavily bombarded from the air and sea, surrendered
on June 11 without the need for an invasion.
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On 2 July 1943, 99th Fighter Squadron pilots escorted B-25 medium bombers in
an attack on Castelvetrano, Italy. Enemy FW-190 fighters rose to intercept the bombers,
and the Tuskegee P-40s intervened. On that day Lt. Charles B. Hall scored the
squadron’s first aerial victory. Never before had an African-American fighter pilot in the
U.S. armed forces shot down an enemy aircraft.
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Hall’s was the only squadron aerial victory for all of 1943. On June 9, a squadron
formation had scattered when a German fighter force twice its size and flying superior
aircraft attacked it from above and out of the sun. Army Air Force generals questioned
whether the 99th Fighter Squadron should remain in combat. In testimony before the
War Department’s Advisory Committee on Negro Troop Policies, Colonel Davis
convinced committee members to endorse his squadron’s continued combat role.
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From the spring of 1943 until May of 1944, the 99th was assigned to the XII Air
Support Command but attached at various times to white fighter groups, including the
324th, the 33d, and the 79th. During that time, the squadron supported the Allied
invasion of Sicily, to which it moved in late July 1943, and the mainland of Italy, to
which it moved in October. On January 16, 1944, the squadron moved again, this time to
Capodichino Airdrome near Naples.
5
Less than one week later, more than 37,000 Allied troops launched an amphibious
invasion of Anzio, about 35 miles south of Rome. Although they established a
beachhead by nightfall, they could not break out of the city. On January 23, Luftwaffe
aircraft attacked the Allied positions and two hospital ships in the harbor. Four Army Air
Forces fighter groups and their squadrons took on the task of repelling enemy air raids.
Among them was the 99th Fighter Squadron.
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this is derived from the official record granted I have found a few things that were later found incorrect but it was things to the 332nd favor.
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