Officer T69745 Little Silver NJ, Peoples, Francis B. Anderson's greatest contribution to the nation was helping prove old stereotypes wrong. The U.S. Army Air Corps 332nd Fighter Group, more commonly known as the Tuskegee Airmen, flew P-51 Mustang fighter planes with distinct red tails to signify their unit. One of the men on the Berlin mission, Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr., went on to become the first brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force (formed from the Army Air Corps in 1947). Once-classified documents provided to Fox News Digital by the Air Force Historical Research Agency show the "box scores for the Red Tails" a trail of destruction of Nazi forces left by the Tuskegee Airmen. 44-D-SE 4/15/1944 2nd Lt. 0828055 Henderson NC, Peoples, Henry R. 44-D-SE 4/15/1944 2nd Lt. 0828056 St. Louis MO, Perkins, John R., Jr. 44-F-TE 6/27/1944 Flt. The unit of African American pilots in the segregated Army earned their wings under the tutelage of pioneering pilot Charles A. Anderson. Officer T64629 Denver CO, Rodgers, Marion R. 44-B-SE 2/8/1944 2nd Lt. 0821920 Elizabeth NJ, Rogers, Amos A. 45-F-TE 9/8/1945 2nd Lt. 0843250 Independence KS, Wilson, Myron 44-D-SE 4/15/1944 Flt. Officer T70112 Martinville LA, Rayner, Ahmed A., Jr. 44-C-TE 3/12/1944 2nd Lt. 01043199 Chicago IL, Rector, John A. 020146 Tuskegee AL, Davis, Claude C. 44-G-TE 8/4/1944 1st Lt. 0441115 Pittsburgh PA, Davis, Clifford W. 45-F-TE 9/8/1945 Flt. Yes, they were the first African American fighter pilots and crew in the US Army Air Corps, and no, they were not all from Tuskegee. Officer T64644 Chicago IL, Williams, Robert W. 44-E-SE 5/23/1944 2nd Lt. 0830797 Ottumwa IA, Williams, Romeo M. 42-K-SE 12/13/1942 2nd Lt. 0794604 Marshall TX, Williams, Thomas E. 45-F-SE 9/8/1945 2nd Lt. 0843242 Philadelphia PA, Williams, Vincent E. 44-D-SE 4/15/1944 Flt. These boys are good pilots. "We went out to the aviation field, where a Civil Aeronautics unit for the teaching of colored pilots is in full swing," first lady Eleanor Roosevelt wrote on April 1, 1941, in her nationally syndicated "My Day" column. Officer T70232 Dowagiac MI, Bryant, Leroy Jr. 44-J-5E 12/28/1944 Flt. Officer T149986 Detroit MI, Barland, Herbert C. 44-H-SE 9/8/1944 2nd Lt. 01168159 Chicago IL, Barnes, Gentry E. 44-D-SE 4/15/1944 2nd Lt. 0828045 Lawrenceville IL, Barnett, Herman A. The group was successful. Tuskegee Airmen

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