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Tuskegee University was awarded the U. Army Air Corps contract to help train America's first Black military aviators because it had already invested in the development of an airfield, had a proven civilian pilot training program and its graduates performed highest on flight aptitude exams.
Robert R. Moton who served with distinction from The Airmen were deployed during the presidential administration of Dr. Frederick Douglas Patterson The all-Black, nd Fighter Group consisted originally of four fighter squadrons, the 99th, the th, the st and the nd. From , some 1, Black pilots were trained at Tuskegee. The Airmen's success in escorting bombers during World War II β having one of the lowest loss records of all the escort fighter groups, and being in constant demand for their services by the allied bomber units.
The 99th Squadron distinguished itself by being awarded two Presidential Unit Citations June-July and May for outstanding tactical air support and aerial combat in the 12th Air Force in Italy, before joining the nd Fighter Group. The nd Fighter group was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for its' longest bomber escort mission to Berlin, Germany on March 24, During this mission, the Tuskegee Airmen then known as the 'Red Tails' destroyed three German ME jet fighters and damaged five additional jet fighters.
The nd Fighter Group had also distinguished itself in June when two of its pilots flying P Thunderbolts discovered a German destroyer in the harbor of Trieste, Italy. The tenacious bomber escort cover provided by the nd "Red Tail" fighters often discouraged enemy fighter pilots from attacking bombers escorted by the nd Fighter Group.
