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The skies have no preference – Black American fighter pilots in the USAF

2nd Lt. Alexander Jefferson was a P-51 fighter pilot in the 332nd Fighter Group (Red Tails). He was shot down in the summer of 1944 and spent the rest of the war in a German POW camp. (National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian)

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