How the Tuskegee airmen got started, the U.S. government figured as an experiment they’d attempt to train colored pilots to see if they could successfully fly in combat situations. It all started in the pre-war times, when the idea was hatched. Negro Air Corps cadets were chosen and took their flying tests which all that were chosen to go to Tuskegee passed with “flying” colors. Of the initial thirteen black pilots; five successfully completed training.
The attitudes towards the Tuskegee Airmen were not so great at times. White pilots didn’t really accept them yet as pilots nor did they really trust them in the air. Like in the movie, you saw how the two African Americans saved the two white pilots from the enemies. When the white pilots went to the base where the two African Americans were at they saw that they were African American pilots who saved them, and the white pilots didn’t respect them at all. If the Tuskegee Airmen just made one mistake the White officers would try to eliminate the Tuskegee men from missions. After a while, white pilots started respecting them because they finally saw that African Americans can actually fly planes and do what the white pilots do.
The legacies that the Tuskegee Airmen showed were that African Americans can do the same things white people do. The Airmen showed that it doesn’t matter how much stuff they had to put up with in the military. They could push through it and stay on board with the missions. African Americans did take a lot trouble in the military but they worked through it and they showed everybody that they can do it.