Leland was a member of the 301st Fighter Squadron, the legendary Tuskegee ... an airworthy Mustang to serve as a flying tribute to him, and the aircraft will fly as his P-51 Lucy Gal.

(U.S. Air Force photo) Tuskegee Airmen navigator cadets practice their ... (National Archives) One of the famous P-51 Mustang "Red Tails" of the 332nd fighter group. (U.S. Air Force photo) Despite ...

In July 1944, members of the 332nd Fighter Group began flying P-51 Mustang planes with tails painted solid red [PDF]. Soon, the Tuskegee Airmen (as a group) were nicknamed the “red tails.” ...

A gray fighter bomber with red a nose, tail and wing tips and the words “By Request” painted on its side stands in the front lawn of the Tuskegee Airmen Texas State Veterans Home in Fort Worth.

The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum ... was promoted to four-star general. His World War II P-51 Mustang is painted on one of the buildings at Young International.

A handcrafted model of a P-51 Mustang ... fly at Tuskegee, Alabama, the only U.S. military airfield that trained black cadets. One of the last surviving members of the famed Tuskegee Airmen ...

The memory of the Tuskegee Airmen is prominently featured in Gary ... Above the Aquatorium soars a replica P-51 Mustang fighter plane, painted to honor Lt. Robert Martin, a Tuskegee Airman ...

Harry Stewart Jr., who flew 43 missions over Europe as a fighter pilot and was among the last surviving combat veterans of the Tuskegee Airmen ... in single-seat P-51 Mustang fighters as escorts ...

The P-51 Mustang, also known as P-51C, was the fighter bomber used by over 900 Black military pilots and airmen called Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. The red tails on their fighter bomber ...