Was maintained by war fighting sources. The total combat sorties was 15,943. Total aerial kills was 112. Id like to ask everybody a question. How many of you have heard that the Tuskegee Airmen never lost a bomber under their escort . Ok. Education time. Ladies and gentlemen, im here to tell you that the myth of never losing a bomber is false. The total number of bombers lost while under escort by the Tuskegee Airmen was 27. This is going through air force records both on the enemy side and on our side. By comparison, the average number of bombers lost while under other p51 squadron protections in theater was 46 for the same period of time so even though they did lose aircraft, their effectiveness showed they were a stretch above the average p51 unit in theater at that time. Please feel free to pass that information on. To date, 66 tuskegee pilots gave the ultimate sacrifice and were killed in north africa and european combat zones. Additionally, 32 were shot down and captured and late
Tuskegee airmen. We have the pleasure of hearing from jim pride former Radio Operator of the Tuskegee Airmen. Major anderson, former Ground Support serviceman of the Tuskegee Airmen. Bill fontroy, former pilot cadet. And finally, steven mccoy. Chairman of the speakers bureau. Please help me in welcoming these brave men of the Tuskegee Airmen. [applause] good morning, everyone. How are we this morning . Excellent. Except. First id like to thank the wonderful production the general gave us and give her a round of applause again. Thank you. Id also like to thank cadet cable for her wonderful introduction of us. The Tuskegee Airmen seated here and i will like to welcome you to this Panel Discussion about the history and legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen. We wish to thank the American Veteran center for allowing us to speak this morning in this wonderful venue. We wish to express our special thanks to our contact within the American Veterans center, wes smith. Please feel free to chat with our
Leadership and talent. If it is in Computer Science the new kinds of languages and technologies, cloudbased things they might need to love too. The policy side of that, whether it is making sure that trend to bring all americans into that. Training for the jobs of the future. President ial candidates have been talking about that for 20 years. People are seeing 80 to 90 pickup general assembly, think that that . Things like that. The end a. Theyre not millions of people that there are beginning to be hundreds. It is like taking a semester long class. In some cases it is people upgrading the skills into a more modern set of product. I was just with the cofounder of square. They place 1000 people in miami into new jobs. He created meet up. People came twice a week and did online courses together. They had communities and were placed into jobs. There is some minor backlash. For example, they want said that everyone ought to be able to repair car engines. But they are not going to be critic
If that is the Gold Standard of integrity, you can have it. [applause] thats a great point. Young people talk. Old people are clapping too. When you talk about your core audience and the disillusionment that that generation has developed in the wake of the failure to change everything that is wrong with washington in the last five and a half, six years, does that translate into a withdrawal from political activism in your mind . People were already saying, in 2012, and i think republicans were banking on it in 2012, they said there is no way obama can reach me solutions, and he disappointed so many people that he cannot have the same electoral model, including the recordsetting levels of youth vote, again in 2012 that he had in 2008, and in fact they voted even more in 2012. Have we really screwed them up now in 2014 . What i would be worried about, and we are out of time, but i will finish this like no light note. We spend a lot of time embedded with isis, all the groups in the middle
Maneuverings, americas ability to be enlightened and to be challenged. To appreciate the significance of the tuskegee experience, its necessary for it to be viewed through the content of the american Racial Climate and the tonic that it was executed. The impetus of establishing a flying program for blacks began at the beginning of world war ii. As a consequence of black discontent, resulting from decades of nontreatment as secondclass citizens, and pacific league, the denial of opportunities to serve our military other than jobs of service or labor. In the face of strong resistance from the military establishment and most officials in the war department, a relentless effort was carried out by a number of black organizations in a and a sympathetic white minority to accept blacks for military Aviation Training in the Army Air Corps. After considerable debate on the subject, the government agreed to establish a program in which blacks would be trained in all aspects of military aviation.