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In what is turning out to be a serendipitous week of WW II aircraft films, last night I watched this tale of the famous "Tuskegee Experiment", in which "coloreds" were given the chance to become fighter pilots, albeit segregated in their own sqadron. Lawrence Fishburne and Cuba Gooding star and they meet on the way to training camp. Eventually they are finally given a combet role out of North Africa, It is a historical fact that this sqadron never lost a bomber to German fighters and toward the end of the war they were requested by bomber crews to guard them. Very well cast and directed with good aerial dogfight photographt. John Lithgow is a bit over the top as a senator who is against the experiment and tries to thwart it along thw way.
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If I remember right this was an HBO movie. While I thought the acting was sparse at best I did enjoy the events portrayed in the film. As an WWII aircraft buff I loved seeing the P-51 Mustang in action. All in all a watchable movie.
Actually as IMDB points out the Tuskegee Squadron flew outmoded P-39's, not P-51 Mustangs. But I agree that the Mustang is a superb aircraft and my favorite WW II plane.
The 99th Fighter Squadron did fly P-39s but only in North Africa. When the 99th was transferred to Europe and combined with three other fighter squadrons they formed the 332nd Fighter Group. At that time they were issued P-51 Mustangs. The HBO movie clearly shows this. The pictures below show one of the remaining P-51s. "Sparky" (as it's named) is used mostly today for racing but it was temporarily painted with the distinctive "Red Tail" markings used by the Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd specifically for use in the HBO movie.
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