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Terrence Howard on the 'Red Tails' Tuskegee Airmen: 'These guys were real heroes'

January 22, 2012 2:32 PM ET

"I'd written reports about them in 1974, 1975, for my dad. That's how my daddy would discipline us," Howard says. "My dad was big on education, so I grew up knowing about the black pilots who shot down Nazi jets, and flew the P-51 Mustang." More

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'Red Tails': Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?

By Jean Bentley

January 21, 2012 5:53 PM ET

Before 1940, African-Americans weren't allowed to fly in the U.S. military. In 1941, due to civil rights organizations pressuring the government, an all-black squadron was formed in Tuskegee, Ala. More

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