Into the Wild Blue Yonder with Red Tails

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"Fly Boys: Western Pennsylvania's Tuskegee Airmen," hosted by WQED's ubiquitous Chris Moore is a compilation of stories of the pilots, navigators, bombardiers, maintenance and support staff, instructors and all the personnel who kept the planes in the air and lived through the experience as well as from family members who remember them.

Seventy-one of those 2,000 "fly boys" have ties ta western Pennsylvania via Belzhoover, the Hill District, Homewood and Sewickley (26 are University of Pittsburgh alumni). Together they comprised the "Red Tails," named after the dramatic red tails painted on the aircraft of the 99th Squadron. Their exploits were regularly chronicled in the Pittsburgh Courier.

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Into the Wild Blue Yonder with Red Tails

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."-Booker T. Was...

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