Meet the American who taught the Tuskegee Airmen to fly, pioneer pilot Charles 'Chief' Anderson
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Meet Charles A. "Chief" Anderson, lead instructor at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in World War II. This American gave the famous Tuskegee Airmen their first taste of flight.
The unit of African American pilots in the segregated Army earned their wings under the tutelage of pioneering pilot Charles A. Anderson. "Anderson learned to fly through personal determination. That’s what we admired about him." — Tuskegee Airman George Hardy "I had the fun of going up in one of the tiny training planes with the head instructor." — Eleanor Roosevelt "The Red Tails destroyed or damaged 409 German aircraft; 739 locomotives and train cars; 40 barges and boats; even one enemy destroyer." — U.S. Air Force Just 66 Tuskegee Airmen were lost in combat in World War II. Tales of the Tuskegee Airmen will be told to future generations. "The U.S. military was fully integrated 1948, just three years after his Tuskegee Airmen flew their final combat mission." Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
Dubbed "Chief" by his students, he was the lead flight instructor at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
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