Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? Chapter 8 & 9

How many Tuskegee pilots served overseas?

How many Tuskegee pilots were held as prisoners of war?

How many Tuskegee airmen died in combat or went missing?

Who was shot down over France and the other pilots did not see that he had escaped and his parents were told he was killed in action?

A pilot who has shot down five or more enemy airplanes is called an ___.

Alexander Jefferson was sent to a ______ ___ ____.

On some bases, the German prisoners were allowed to use facilities that the black American soldiers could not.

• True

• False

What is POW short for?

The Red Tail pilots protected the bigger planes and earned a new nickname, the ___ ____ ______.

Some pilots were more interested in becoming ____ and would chase after enemy fighters which left their bombers unprotected.