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March 22nd

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  1. 1941
    The Rise

    Tuskegee Airmen activated

    The War Department activates the 99th Pursuit Squadron at Chanute Field, Illinois, the first Black flying unit in the U.S. military. Training moves to Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama. Over the war the Tuskegee Airmen fly 15,000 sorties in North Africa and Europe and escort heavy bombers into Berlin.

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