Never lost a bomber when they were flying escort. Never. This story was an HBO movie back in the mid-90's and it was very, very good. These men were treated less well than German POW's housed in the US and they served with great honor.
"Never lost a bomber when they were flying escort. Never. This story was an HBO movie back in the mid-90's and it was very, very good"
They probably did a fine job, but I have never been convinced that they were superior to other American pilots which seems to be the point of everything that I have ever read about them.
As post 10 mentions their main claim to fame is simply not true.
Here is another link to a rewriting of history, it is about an award winning documentary that was revealed to be simply made up.
"It took a months-long campaign by veterans of the genuine liberator units to get PBS to disavow the 1992 documentary,"Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II," which falsely credited the 761st Tank and another African-American battalion (183rd Combat Engineers) with liberating Buchenwald and Dachau, the two largest camps freed by Americans."
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b125b384e8f.htm
Like I said the Tuskegee unit was a fine unit, but I have never seen the evidence that shows them as so vastly superior to our other units.