TUSKEGEE AIRMEN


Enlisted History Resource Guide
Compiled by SNCOA Library Staff

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Books:


Astor, Gerald. The Right to Fight: A History of African Americans in the Military. Novato, CA, Presidio Press, 1998. 529p.
Book call no.: 355.008996073 A858r YELLOW RESERVE

Black Americans in Defense of Our Nation. Washington, DC, GPO, 1982. 176p.
Book call no.: 355.008996073 B627 YELLOW RESERVE

Cooper, Charlie. Tuskegee's Heroes: Featuring the Aviation Art of Roy La Grone. Osceola, WI, Motorbook International Publishers and Wholesalers, 1996. 156p.
Book call no.: 940.544973 C776t YELLOW RESERVE

Donaldson, Gary. The History of African-Americans in the Military: Double V. Malabar, FL, Krieger Pub. Co., 1991. 182p.
Book call no.: 355.0089 D676h YELLOW RESERVE

Dryden, Charles W. A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman. Tuscaloosa, AL, University of Alabama Press, c1997. 421p.
Book call no.: 92 D799a YELLOW RESERVE

Francis, Charles E. The Tuskegee Airmen: The Men Who Changed a Nation. 3rd edition. Boston, Branden Pub. Co., 1993. 393p.
Book call no.: 940.544973 F818t 1993 YELLOW RESERVE

Gropman, Alan L. The Air Force Integrates, 1945-1964. Washington, DC, Office of Air Force History, 1978. 384p.
Book call no.: 358.33 A2987a YELLOW RESERVE

Hardesty, Von. Black Wings: The American Black in Aviation. Washington, DC, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institute, 1984. 80p.
Book call no.: 387.708996073 H259b YELLOW RESERVE

Holway, John. Red Tails, Black Wings: The Men of America's Black Air Force. Las Cruces, NM, Yucca Tree, c1997. 393p.
Book call no.: 940.544973 h759R YELLOW RESERVE

Homan, Lynn M. and Reilly, Thomas. The Tuskegee Airmen. Charleston, SC, Arcadia Publishing, 1998. 128p.
Book call no.: 940.544973 H763t YELLOW RESERVE
Includes pictures of aircraft maintenance and enlisted personnel.

Jakeman, Robert J. The Divided Skies: Establishing Segregated Flight Training At Tuskegee, Alabama, 1934-1942. Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, 1992. 416p.
Book call no.: 358.4137 J25d YELLOW RESERVE

Lanning, Michael Lee. The African American Soldier: From Crispus Attucks To Colin Powell. Seacacus, NJ, Carol Publishing Group, 1997. 310p.
Book call no.: 355.008996073 L292a YELLOW RESERVE

McKissack, Pat. Red-Tail Angels: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. New York, Walker and Co., 1995. 136p.
Book call no.: 940.544973 M158r YELLOW RESERVE

Nalty, Bernard C. Strength For the Fight: A History of Black Americans In the Military. New York, Free Press, 1986. 424p.
Book call no.: 355.008996073 N173s YELLOW RESERVE

Osur, Alan M. Blacks in the Army Air Forces During World War II: The Problem of Race Relations. Washington, DC, Office of Air Force History, 1977. 227p.
Book call no.: 940.5403 O85b YELLOW RESERVE

Sandler, Stanley. Segregated Skies: All-Black Combat Squadrons of WW II. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institute, 1992. 217p.
Book call no.: 940.544973 S217s YELLOW RESERVE

Scott, Lawrence P. Double V: The Civil Rights Struggle of the Tuskegee Airmen. East Lansing, MI, Michigan State University Press, 1994. 322p.
Book call no.: 940.544973 S427d YELLOW RESERVE

Smith, Charlene E. McGee Tuskegee Airman: The Biography of Charles F. McGee: Air Force Fighter Combat Record Holder. Boston, Branden Publishing Co, 1999. 204p.
Book call no.: 92 M145s YELLOW RESERVE

Warren, James C. The Freeman Field Mutiny. Vacaville, CA, Conyers Publishing Co., 1996. 213p.
Book call no.: 940.5403 W289f YELLOW RESERVE

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Documents:


Pridgen, Johnny C. A Unit History of the 99th Fighter Squadron, 1941-1949. Maxwell AFB, AL, Air Command and Staff College, April 1988. 29p.
Doc. call no.: M-U 43122 P947u 

Russell, Andra M. Tuskegee Airmen: Leaders of Men. Maxwell AFB, AL, Air War College, April 1996. 35p.
Doc. call no.: M-U 43117 R961t 

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Periodicals:


Carter, Rolf. The Other Tuskegee Airmen (Part One). Sergeants 36:14-15 January/February 1997.

Carter, Rolf. The Other Tuskegee Airmen (Part Two). Sergeants 36:22-23 March 1997.

Dendy IV, John B. (TSgt.) Life on the Line Tuskegee. Airman 45:36-39 February 2001.
Also available online: http://www.af.mil/news/airman/0201/tusk.html

Emery, Gary. Tuskegee Airman Tells Trials, Triumphs. Air Force News, 10 March 1997

Gropman, Alan L. Tuskegee Airmen. Air Force Magazine 79:52-56 March 1996.

Gropman, Alan L. Air Force, 1941-1951: From Segregation to Integration. Air Power History 40:25-29 Summer 1993.

McKenna, Pat. Lonely Eagles (Tuskegee Airmen). Airman 43:24-27 February 1999.
Also available online: http://www.af.mil/news/airman/0299/tusk.htm

Riley, Eddie C. Tuskegee Airmen. (Based on an interview with retired LTC Woodrow Crockett). Sergeants 31:10-11+ December 1992.

Wolk, Herman S. When the Color Line Vanished. Air Force Magazine 81:74-79 July 1998.
Also available online: http://www.afa.org/magazine/July1998/0798integrate.asp

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Related SNCOA Library Resource Guides:


African Americans in the Armed Forces.
Available at: http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/school/sncoa/aamer.htm  

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