The Tuskegee Airmen

The Tuskegee Airmen is a 1995 HBO television movie based on the exploits of an actual groundbreaking unit, the first African American combat pilots in the United States Army Air Corps, that fought in World War II. The film was directed by Robert Markowitz and stars Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding, Jr., John Lithgow, and MalcolmJamal Warner.

While the cadets begin their classes, Major Joy began his ploy to discredit the cadets. During a classroom session, Joy had them to retake the same flight exam they had to take to get into the program to begin with. Later, he takes Peoples on a flight after its revealed that Peoples has a commercial pilot license. Joy takes the training aircraft, a PT17, through very tricky amp dangerous moves in order to try and break Peoples will, but the tactic didnt workwhich seemed to frustrate Joy even more. Afterwards, Major Joy had to explain to Colonel Rogers on why he decided to give the retest and Joys beliefs that some if not all of the cadets may have cheated to get in the program. Rogers informed Joy that no one scored less than a 95 on the retest, and scourned Joy about his tactics.After a briefing with the cadets, Major Joy sends each cadet up on flights in their PT17 training aircrafts with an instructor pilot. It would end tragically for cadet Johns Pheifer, as he struggled to get his aircraft out of a stall. The instructor also tries to regain control but it was too late, as the plane crashed into a building, exploding on impact and killing both Johns and his instructor. Afterwards, cadet Leroy Cappy MalcolmJamal Warner begins to let self doubt creep in after seeing Johns deadly crash amp watching others leave the program. Cadets Lee amp Peoples give Cappy a stern pep talk, telling him not to quit. The cadets continue on with their training, flying with their instructor pilots and controlling the planes on their own. Major Joy even let cadet Lee make several solo flights around the base. While watching a film on air combat, Lt. Glen steps in and begins to teach the cadets. Cadet Peoples questioned Lt. Glen on why he, not Major Joy, was teaching air combat class. At this point, Lt. Glen reveals to the cadets most notably Peoples that he had joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, where he was credited with three kills, making him the only Army Air Corps officer on th

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