Air Force to Honor the Tuskegee Airmen with New Uniforms Against Navy – By Blake Stilwell (Military.com) / Sept 22 2020
Service academy football is back, and the Air Force Academy is catching attention with season-opening new uniforms. The Falcons will temporarily hang up their Air Force blue to honor the “Red Tails” of the famed Tuskegee Airmen against the Naval Academy on Oct. 3.
The uniforms are an all-gray homage to the Army Air Forces’ African-American airmen who trained and fought during World War II in the skies above Europe and North Africa, and the ground personnel who supported them.
The helmets are white, split with the distinctive red that colored the tail section of the P-51 Mustang fighters flown by the 332nd Fighter Group to identify the group in the air. Over the course of the war, Tuskegee pilots flew more than 15,000 combat sorties, downed 112 enemy aircraft and destroyed over 1,000 railcars, vehicles and aircraft on the ground.
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