The Tuskegee Airmen reader #327 by Carole Marsh

What year did the Army start training a group of African American men as fighter pilots?

• 1918

• 1941

• 1945

• 1965

Where did the Tuskegee Airmen train?

• Tuskegee, Alabama

• Atlanta, Georgia

• Jacksonville, Florida

• Washington, D.C.

What was the name of the first airfield to train black pilots?

• Alabama Airbase

• Atlanta Airfield

• Tuskegee Institute

• Tuskegee Army Airfield

Becoming a pilot is easy.

• True

• False

Did everyone agree that black men should become pilots?

• Yes

• No

Who visited the Tuskegee Airfield and flew with "Chief" Anderson for a 30-minute flight?

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Franklin Roosevelt

• the Secret Service

• Herbert Hoover

For which war did the Tuskegee Airmen fight?

• Civil War

• Spanish-American War

• World War I

• World War II

What do Bomber escorts do?

• They drop bombs on the enemy.

• They fly with the bomber plane on its mission.

• They build bombs in factories.

Bomber escort pilots do NOT fight enemy planes in the air.

• True

• False

About how many German planes did the Bomber escorts destroy or damage?

• 100

• 5,000

• 1,000

• 400