George Lucas’s new film, Red Tails, celebrates famous African-American fighter pilots, but Marc Wortman tells the little known story of America’s first black aviators-and how they took to the sky against impossible odds.
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George Lucas’s new film, Red Tails, celebrates famous African-American fighter pilots, but Marc Wortman tells the little known story of America’s first black aviators-and how they took to the sky against impossible odds.
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