The Tuskegee Airmen, an all Black fighter unit formed in 1941,  prepared and trained to become pursuit pilots in a war that many of the Army brass never intended for them to fight in. The George Lucas film, Red Tails stars Cuba Gooding Jr and paints the story of how the Tuskegee commanding officers and pilots overcame the Army’s enshrined policies of racism and separation of the races to earn the right to f ...