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The new George Lucas movie called Red Tails focuses attention on the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II and their combat operations overseas. Loaded with special effects and a great cast, the movie is thrilling and inspiring, but how accurate is it historically? Military historian Daniel Haulman takes an appreciative look at Red Tails, comparing it to the actual missions of the Tuskegee Airmen and offering places where interested viewers could study the events further.
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DANIEL HAULMAN retired as head of the organizational histories branch at the United States Air Force Historical Research Agency, where he worked since 1982. He has authored many books and published dozens of articles on aviation history, including specifically about the Tuskegee Airmen. He is the author The Tuskegee Airmen, An Illustrated History (with primary authors Jerome Ennels and Joseph Caver) and Eleven Myths About the Tuskegee Airmen, both published by NewSouth Books. Haulman travels extensively to present on the subject of the Tuskegee Airmen. He is considered by many to be a foremost expert on the subject. As a member of the Tuskegee Airmen Inc. for many years, he has attended eight of the organization’s conventions and counts many Airmen as personal friends. He was recently honored with the Air Force Historical Foundation's Major General I. B. Holley Award.
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What Hollywood Got Right and Wrong about the Tuskegee Airmen in the Great New Movie Red Tails - Daniel Haulman
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What Hollywood Got Right and Wrong about the Tuskegee Airmen in the Great New Movie, Red Tails
Daniel Haulman
NewSouth Books
Montgomery
More on the Tuskegee Airmen, from NewSouth Books
The Tuskegee Airmen, An Illustrated History: 1939-1949 (2011)
The Tuskegee Airmen and the Never Lost a Bomber
Myth (2011)
Eleven Myths about the Tuskegee Airmen (2012)
NewSouth Books
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Copyright © 2012 by Daniel Haulman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by NewSouth Books, a division of NewSouth, Inc., Montgomery, Alabama.
eBook ISBN: 978-1-60306-160-5
Learn more at www.newsouthbooks.com/tuskegeeairmen
TA110.TIFTuskegee Airmen in one of the flight formations that would soon carry them over enemy territory. Here they are flying the shark-nosed P-40 fighter aircraft on a 1943 practice mission from Selfridge Field, Michigan.
All photos used in this ebook are courtesy of the Air Force Historical Research Agency and also appear in The Tuskegee Airmen, An Illustrated History: 1939–1949 (NewSouth Books, 2011).
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