I think most people take the wrong lesson from the Tuskegee airman. It wasn't a matter of black or whites being better pilots. It was the training. The Tuskegee airman weren't sent to Europe for a long time so they had more time to train and fly their planes, I'm guessing more than a year, before they got into combat. While the American pilot trained for a much shorter time before they were shipped overseas, I wouldn't be surprised if were talking a few months.
If you went into combat, would you want a soldier who went to the range and fired his weapon every day for a year or some guy out of basic training. They have both met the minimum training and are qualified but the one first one you would consider an expert with equipment and not just familiar.
"I think most people take the wrong lesson from the Tuskegee airman. It wasn't a matter of black or whites being better pilots. It was the training. The Tuskegee airman weren't sent to Europe for a long time so they had more time to train and fly their planes, I'm guessing more than a year, before they got into combat. While the American pilot trained for a much shorter time before they were shipped overseas, I wouldn't be surprised if were talking a few months."
I'm just saying that I have always considered the Tuskegee story to be inflated, and now we have proof.
I think they were a good, competent unit, that is all.