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unusual facts about The Tuskegee Airmen


MAPS Air Museum

This area, dubbed "the gallery of heroes", has displays on Pearl Harbor, The Tuskegee Airmen, Rosie the Riveter, and other displays of members of the museum and community that fought in wars and have loaned their items to the museum to be put on display.


Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center

Fort Chaffee has been used as a set for various movies, including the movie A Soldier's Story in 1984, Biloxi Blues in 1988, and The Tuskegee Airmen in 1995.

Hispano AviaciĆ³n HA-1112

This made them available for theatrical use, masquerading as Bf 109Es and Gs in movies like Battle of Britain, Der Stern von Afrika, Memphis Belle, and The Tuskegee Airmen.

John Mosley

Mosley then went to the Tuskegee Institute to learn how to fly for the US Army Air Corp, a feat seen in the movie The Tuskegee Airmen starring Laurence Fishburne.


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Jewel Lafontant

Jewel Lafontant married John W. Rogers, Sr., a former member of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, on December 7, 1946; they had one child, investment executive John W. Rogers, Jr. (born 1958).