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The tuskegee airmen won the first Weapons Meet at Las Vegas Air Force Base, Nevada on 2 May 1949 and it was in a bubbletop p-47. During the 2nd war the Tuskegee only flew p-47 razerbacks for a few weeks in europe. This picture was probally taken between 1945-49 stateside.

Thanks for the rapid replies and links. I am really starting to get excited about mapping out my weekends now(I will be able to site-see Germany for three weekends total). I have even showed some of the links to some co-workers who will be also going and they liked the idea seeing some of the...

Sometime in June I will be doing a business trip to Frankfurt Germany. I will be there for three weeks. I have to work during the week but will have weekends off to go site seeing. Besides the normal site seeing I would love to visit some air museums/historic sites etc. Any help would be...

Great pictures /videos Thanks for posting Can't wait to see more and than the final movie.

I read war stories by American pilots in the Pacific know that they could climb to get out of trouble sometimes since most American fighters had a higher flight ceiling than most Japanese planes. Looks like the Japanese Army had much better ceiling than the Japanese Naval planes. That probally...

here's a bad 332nd P-51 landing

On a Tuskegee bomber excort mission it was reported that a Black Mustang flew up to the bomber group as shown in the below painting. They showed a German p-51D on History channal's DOGFIGHTS sneeking up on the bombers. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yNBGGRJ8Tk

Yeah A SNJ Who ever restored her must not have known it was a navy plane not airforce.

Naval pilots had to deal with carrier landings and navigation(flying across large stetches of ocean to find the enemy and than relocate the home carrier after the battle). Most Naval pilots had to be above average flying skills just to handle flying onto a moving carrier deck. Both land and...

In my search for p-47 tuskegee photos for my latest RC 1/8 scale p-47. I came across this website with tons of Tuskegee airmen overseas photos.The site shows P-40's, P-39's,P-47's, and lots of p-51 mustangs both B and D. There are even photos of friendly Spitfires and Hawker Hurricanes and...

Here are several examples and acompany that makes the decals. Here is a link of the tuskegee kills and what plane they were flying. There were several pilots listed with kills while flying a p-47. http://tuskegeeairmen.org/uploads/stats.pdf hope this helps

In the HBO movie Tuskegee Airmen I believe the actual b/w gun camera footage of the p-47 shooting and the resulting explosion on the ship was shown. Because of the limited budget of the film every plane shown in the movie were P-51's. You could slow the movie footage down enough to see what was...

Well said The shirts Should represent all aircraft/pilots of all countries.

That's some cool info Just as long as the rookie did not crash the Aces's plane by mistake.

He died doing something he loved As time marches on it will be increasingly harder to keep a lot of the old warbirds in reliable flying condition.