Tour the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site – Tuskegee, Alabama
On your trip into the world of Alabama tourism you will have the opportunity to step back in time when you visit the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site and Museum. The year is 1942 and the African-American men that knew how to fly or wanted to learn to fly were finally admitted into the Army Air Corp in Tuskegee, Alabama to help with the war effort. Prior to that date they had been relatively ignored or left out of the flying world by the military. Even when they were admitted to Tuskegee they were trained in a segregated field but they wanted to fly, they wanted to help with the war and they became a valuable asset to the war effort with their skill and abilities.
Today you can visit the Museum and see the films that tell how the Tuskegee Airmen were trained and their story. You can take a tour of Hanger #1 Museum on some weekends and see what is available at the museum in regard to the planes that were flown and hear some of the stories that have been passed on from the experiences.
Although there are not many of the original members of the Tuskegee Airmen left their contribution to the winning of the war will stay with us always. Come and see how the world has changed since the days when the Tuskegee Airmen entered the war as a segregated division of the military.

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