As I conducted my research on the Tuskegee Airmen, I found several articles that would be very helpful in my article regarding the Tuskegee Airmen. The new found items will allow me to study and determine the quality of flying skills they had. I would also like to enlighten you about their missions and how they viewed their own performance. These articles will also help me tell their story of how discrimination has affected their lives. Reading these articles helped me better tell this amazing story. It gives me dates and times and a list of what really made them successful in life. In the first article "The Lonely Eagles" by Robert A. Rose, DDS gave me great insight into who these men really were. The U.S. Air Force Association honored all of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen at the 2008 Air and Space Conference. They handed out lifetime achievement awards to everyone in attendance. Retired airmen like Colonel Charles McGhee, Lieutenant Colonel Walter McCreary and Colonel Elmer Jones were there to share the spotlight they deserved. They left a lasting legacy for Airmen and support personnel. In his book "Lonely Eagles", Dr. Robert A. Rose tells the story of black American pilots during World War II. The book is a story of true patriotism and remarkable fighting skills. The U.S. Air Force Association expresses its gratitude and the nation thanks these heroes for their duties accomplished more than 60 years ago. In my second article "The Air Force Integrates" by Alan L. Gropman. The racial integration of Negro pilots in the Air Force in World War II until the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Alan L. Gropman declares that the Army desegregated itself, not for moral or political reasons but only for improve the effectiveness of the Army...... middle of paper ... to defend a country that considered him a second-class citizen He was from Detroit and Jefferson joined the Army Air Corps in 1941. He trained at Tuskegee in Alabama, becoming a 2nd lieutenant in 1942. He joined one of the. the most decorated fighting groups of the war, flying the P-51 Based out of Italy, Jefferson flew escort missions over Europe before being shot down over France in 1944. My last article. "332nd Fighter Group - Tuskegee Airmen." by Chris Bucholtz, illustrated by Jim Laurier. The Tuskegee experiment, was an experiment to show and prove that blacks could not fly fighter planes. Ironically, this resulted in the arrival of one of the Army Air Corp's elite units. I was able to glean more information from this source than any other I came across. He informed me of the planes they flew and where they fought, how many were killed and who became prisoners of war.