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Red Tails and the Tuskegee Airmen

By Stan Ingold

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Tuskegee, AL – January 20th marks the opening of the movie "Red Tails" nationwide. It tells the story of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, the first black fighter pilots in U-S military history. As Alabama Public Radio's Stan Ingold reports, the original airmen received a special screening in the town where they were trained

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