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Keep Your Airspeed Up - The Story of a Tuskegee Airman (Hardcover)
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Keep Your Airspeed Up - The Story of a Tuskegee Airman (Hardcover)
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Inspiring memoir of Colonel Harold H. Brown, one of the 930
original Tuskegee pilots, whose dramatic wartime exploits and
postwar professional successes contribute to this extraordinary
account. Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman is
the memoir of an African American man who, through dedication to
his goals and vision, rose through the despair of racial
segregation to great heights of accomplishment, not only as a
military aviator, but also as an educator and as an American
citizen. Unlike other historical and autobiographical portrayals of
Tuskegee airmen, Harold H. Brown's memoir is told from its
beginnings: not on the first day of combat, not on the first day of
training, but at the very moment Brown realized he was meant to be
a pilot. He revisits his childhood in Minneapolis where his
fascination with planes pushed him to save up enough of his own
money to take flying lessons. Brown also details his first trip to
the South, where he was met with a level of segregation he had
never before experienced and had never imagined possible. During
the 1930s and 1940s, longstanding policies of racial discrimination
were called into question as it became clear that America would
likely be drawn into World War II. The military reluctantly allowed
for the development of a flight-training program for a limited
number of African Americans on a segregated base in Tuskegee,
Alabama. The Tuskegee Airmen, as well as other African Americans in
the armed forces, had the unique experience of fighting two wars at
once: one against Hitler's fascist regime overseas and one against
racial segregation at home. Colonel Brown fought as a combat pilot
with the 332nd Fighter Group during World War II, and was captured
and imprisoned in Stalag VII A in Moosburg, Germany, where he was
liberated by General George S. Patton on April 29, 1945. Upon
returning home, Brown noted with acute disappointment that race
relations in the United States hadn't changed. It wasn't until 1948
that the military desegregated, which many scholars argue would not
have been possible without the exemplary performance of the
Tuskegee Airmen.
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