Known as the Tuskegee Airmen, from the unit‘s origins in the Alabama training base of the same name, the 332nd Fighter Group was made up of African-Americans. The unit famously overcame racial prejudice and discrimination to become one of the very elite fighter units of World War Two. On March 24, 1945, operating from Italy, the Tuskegees in their P-51 Mustangs encountered the Messerschmitt Me 262; the fighter that Adolf Hitler hoped would turn the tide of war. Among the pilots who came up against the faster and more heavily armed jets were 1st Lts Roscoe Brown and Earl R Lane and 2nd Lt Charles V Brantley. All three wanted to do much more than defeat the Germans. A 1925 Army War College study concluded that because 'they lacked intelligence and were cowardly, 'blacks' would never be able to fly aircraft of any type'. Bad enough that the enemy touted ideas about a master race; their own country had a segregated military.
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机译：第332战斗机小组由同名阿拉巴马州训练基地的单位改称为Tuskegee Airmen，由非洲裔美国人组成。这个单位以克服种族偏见和歧视着称，成为第二次世界大战中非常精锐的战斗机之一。 1945年3月24日，在意大利作战的图斯克吉人乘坐他们的P-51野马遇到了Messerschmitt Me 262；阿道夫·希特勒（Adolf Hitler）希望能够扭转战局的战斗机。在与更快，更全副武装的喷气式飞机对抗的飞行员中，第一中尉罗斯科·布朗和伯爵R Lane和第二中尉查尔斯·五·布兰特利。三人都想做的不仅仅是击败德国人。 1925年陆军战争学院的一项研究得出的结论是，由于“他们缺乏情报并且胆怯，'黑人'将永远无法驾驶任何类型的飞机”。太糟糕了，以至于敌人大肆宣传高手竞赛的想法；他们自己的国家有一支隔离的军队。
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