Two historians are disputing the claim that America’s first Black fighter pilots never lost a bomber to enemy fire during World War II.
U.S. Air Force records show that at least a few bombers escorted by the red-tailed fighters of the Tuskegee Airmen were shot down by enemy planes, according to William F. Holton, a historian of Tuskegee Airmen Inc., and Dr. Daniel Haulman, a historian at the Air Force Historical Research Agency.  Read more