5 Examples Specific to Topic

1. Live Tuskegee Airment Pod Cast

This is a Pod Cast of some of the living of the Tuskegee Airmen recorded at North Harris College who share several of their real life experiences with the audience. This pod cast features Robert Ashby, Bill Broadwaster, Don Alger, Colin Black, Jimmy Shephard, and L. Turmon (All members of the historic Fighting 99th Pursuit Squadron during World War II). As the program progresses each of the Airmen speaks about their personal experiences with the Tuskegee Airmen Experimental Program, then answers a variety of questions from the students and public of North Harris College. Each of the men come from various backgrounds around the country but each share the same motivation and desire to become pilots and to hush the critics who believed that Blacks had no business flying airplanes. This Pod Cast provides a rare opportunity to hear the thoughs and opinions of the people who actually lived the experience.

2. Tuskegee Airmen Facts

This site is a fact list of the story and a few of the accomplishments of the Tuskegee Airmen. This site is unique because it is maintained and updated by Tuskegee University the alma matter of several pilots, and host of the experiment itself. In addition to this fact list there is also the full listing of more than 1,000 pilots who completed the Tuskegee Airmen program. There is also an extensive gallery of black and white photographs taken from the time. It also includes an update on the memorial to the Tuskegee Airmen was agreed upon by Congress in 1998, but since has yet to be properly funded.

3. Christopher Newman: Tuskegee Airman (a brief documentary)

This video from YouTube.com is a brief homemade documentary focused on the individual experience of Tuskegee Airman Christopher Newman. The video is centered around Mr. Newman’s experience all the way from training at Tuskegee to his post-war troubles. It also includes several pictures from Mr. Newsman’s personal collection, as well as those from other national archives. The creator of the documentary, also was able to insert slide of factual information from the era, as well as video news clips shown in cinema’s in America during the war. Mr. Newman also included his experience when he crash landed in a field and his fighter was surrounded by flames.

4. Tuskegee Airmen, Inc.

This is the website of the Tuskegee Airmen, Incorporated NFP (Non Profit Group). This website is representative of the 50 Chapters around the country all with the mission of acknowledging, and educating the public of the historic accomplishments made by the pilots, crew, and support staff. This site is dedicated to the preservation of the accomplishments by all of the participants in the program during and after World War II. This site also includes a comprehensive history of the program from its initial idea from black leaders, congressmen and other politicians. This site also has the official listing of all active pilots who participated during the war, their rank, and where they were from. It is interesting to note that not all of the pilots who served in the war were born in the united state. Several of them hailed from islands in the Caribbean and the US Virgin Islands.

5. Tuskegee Airmen Recalled to Duty

This blog is a feature article on a small group of four of the surviving Tuskegee Airmen who traveled to Iraq on a morale boosting trip to meet the troops currently serving there. The group of four included retired Lt. Col. Robert Ashby, who was one of the original graduating classes of the Tuskegee Program. This blog is heavily read by servicemen and women and their friends and family at home. Even the writer of the blog was humbled and inspired by the fact that these older heroes would take the time out of their own lives and travel over to war-town Iraq in show of support for the troops. This blog featured several comments from readers that were happy to learn that these veterans wanted to play an active role in support of the troops, despite the fact that this trip was not heavily covered by major network news.