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A handful of surviving Tuskegee Airmen received a standing ovation on April 11 at Metropolitan State College in Denver. In 1940, President Roosevelt formed an Army Air Corps training base for black pilots at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Famed for their precision flying and their red-tailed planes, black fighter pilots escorted U.S. bombers on hundreds of missions during World War II, without losing a single one. The program trained 996 pilots. Sixty-six died on duty and 33 were taken prisoner.
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