Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site

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Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site
IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape)
The Hangar One Museum at The Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama

Location	Tuskegee, Alabama, USA
Coordinates	32°27′26″N 85°40′48″W / 32.45722°N 85.68°W / 32.45722; -85.68Coordinates: 32°27′26″N 85°40′48″W / 32.45722°N 85.68°W / 32.45722; -85.68
Area	44.71 acres (0.18 km²)
Established	November 6, 1998
Visitors	10,323 (in 2005)
Governing body	National Park Service

Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama, commemorates the contributions of African American airmen in World War II. Moton Field was the site of primary flight training for the pioneering pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen. It was constructed in 1941 as a new training base. The field was named after former Tuskegee Institute principal Robert Russa Moton, who died the previous year.

Poster of a Tuskegee Airman.

[edit] National historic site

Established on November 6, 1998, the National Historic Site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places the same day. The site has a temporary visitor center. Hangar One has been restored and the grand opening of the site was October 10, 2008. The Hangar One Museum is open for tours Wednesday-Sunday. Tours are free of charge to the public. An oral history project, consisting of interviews of hundreds of people involved in the Tuskegee Expereince, was completed in 2005 and will eventually be available to the public.

[edit] External links

Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, from the National Park Service
Legends of Tuskegee, from the National Park Service
Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms, from the National Park Service
Tuskegee Airmen

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Units	99th Fighter Squadron 100th Fighter Squadron 301st Fighter Squadron 302nd Fighter Squadron 332nd Fighter Group 477th Fighter Group

Air fields	Chanute Field Moton Army Air Field Tuskegee Army Air Field

Pilots	Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. (C/O) Lee Archer Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler Edgar Bolden George L. Brown Roscoe C. Brown Eugene Calvin Cheatham, Jr. Clarence Dart Alfonza W. Davis Gene Derricotte Charles Dryden Julius Freeman Oliver Goodall Raymond V. Haysbert Percy L. Heath, Jr. Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. Alexander Jefferson Herman A. Johnson Charles William Ledbetter Charles McGee John W. Mosley Wendell O. Pruitt Lawrence E. Roberts Isaiah Edward Robinson, Jr. Robert Searcy Wilmeth Sidat-Singh Vernon Sport Charles Sumner "Chuck" Stone, Jr. Percy Sutton Roger Terry Spann Watson Malvin "Mal" Greston Whitfield Henry A. Wise Jr. Coleman Young

Incidents	Freeman Field Mutiny

Aircraft	Bell P-39 Airacobra Curtiss P-40 Warhawk North American P-51 Mustang Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

Films	Black Eagle (Wild Card character) Flight of the Red Tail Hart's War Henry Browne, Farmer Red Tail Reborn Red Tails Silver Wings and Civil Rights: The Fight to Fly The Tuskegee Airmen Wings for This Man

Legacy	Red Tail Project Tuskegee Airmen, Inc Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site

Other	Noel F. Parrish

See also	African American military history Buffalo Soldier Golden Thirteen 366th Infantry Regiment U.S. Army Black Panthers United States Colored Troops

Protected Areas of Alabama

Federal

National Parks and Historic Sites	Horseshoe Bend National Military Park Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site

National Monuments	Russell Cave National Monument

National Forests	Conecuh Talladega Tuskegee William B. Bankhead

National Wildlife Refuges	Bon Secour Cahaba River Choctaw Eufaula Fern Cave Key Cave Mountain Longleaf Santa Cave Watercress Darter Wheeler

Other Protected Areas	Little River Canyon National Preserve Natchez Trace Trail Pinhoti National Recreation Trail Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail Weeks Bay Reserve

Wilderness Areas	Cheaha Wilderness Dugger Mountain Wilderness Sipsey Wilderness

State

State Parks	Bladon Springs Blue Springs Buck's Pocket Cathedral Caverns Chattahoochee Cheaha Chewacla Chickasaw DeSoto Florala Frank Jackson Gulf Joe Wheeler Lake Guntersville Lake Lurleen Lakepoint Meaher Monte Sano Oak Mountain Paul M. Grist Rickwood Caverns Roland Cooper Wind Creek

State Forests	Fayette Geneva Little River Saint Stephens Weogufka

Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (web)

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