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Red Tails Overlooks the Story of America’s First Black Pilots

George Lucas’s new film, Red Tails, celebrates famous African-American fighter pilots, but Marc Wortman tells the little known story of America’s first black aviators—and how they took to the sky against impossible odds.

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