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Nightfighters: The True Story Of The 332nd Fighter Group--The Tuskegee Airmen

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0.0·1994·0h 53m

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American pilots who saw combat during the Second World War. The 332nd Fighter Group stands apart ...

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Cast

Arthur Burghardt

Arthur Burghardt

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Spann Watson

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Lee Archer

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Roscoe Brown, Jr.

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Herbert Carter

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Luke Weathers

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Alfred Anderson

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Harry Sheppard

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DIRECTOR

Madonna Benjamin

OVERVIEW

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American pilots who saw combat during the Second World War. The 332nd Fighter Group stands apart from any other air force fighter groups in the Second World War: all personnel, from pilots to ground crew to surgeons, were black. They confounded expectations and prejudices existing in America in the thirties and forties about the abilities of black Americans. They excelled as pilots and became a crack unit, showing great courage and skill and achieving where other fighter groups had failed. Despite this, they were segregated on the ground and in the air from the white flyers whose lives they protected. (Alexander Street)