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1) What did both Charles McGee and Walter McCreary have happen to them during World War II?

1) What did both Charles McGee and Walter McCreary have happen to them during World War II?

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9:33 l Tuskegge Airmen NAME PERIOD Tuskegee Airmen to get medal for WWII exploits 1) What did both Charles McGee and Walter McCreary have happen to them during World War II? 2) What award were these Tuskegee Airmen recently given as a result of their actions during World War II? 3) From 1942 till 1946, how many black fighter and bomber pilots were trained to fight? 4) What degree did Charles McGee seek while in college? 5) How many missions did McGee fly in? 6) What was the average number of missions for white pilot? 7) Why did McGee continue flying during the Korean War and Vietnam War? 8) What was the P-51’s biggest obstacle when attacking Berlin by air? 9) What did this story become known as? 10) What personally hurt Woodrow Crockett when he returned home after the war?
Transcribed Image Text:9:33 l Tuskegge Airmen NAME PERIOD Tuskegee Airmen to get medal for WWII exploits 1) What did both Charles McGee and Walter McCreary have happen to them during World War II? 2) What award were these Tuskegee Airmen recently given as a result of their actions during World War II? 3) From 1942 till 1946, how many black fighter and bomber pilots were trained to fight? 4) What degree did Charles McGee seek while in college? 5) How many missions did McGee fly in? 6) What was the average number of missions for white pilot? 7) Why did McGee continue flying during the Korean War and Vietnam War? 8) What was the P-51’s biggest obstacle when attacking Berlin by air? 9) What did this story become known as? 10) What personally hurt Woodrow Crockett when he returned home after the war?
9:33 ll ? Tuskegge Airmen Alrmen to get TUskegee medal for WWII exploits Congress to present top civilian honor BY MICHAEL E. RUANE AND AVIS THOMAS-LESTER Washington Post WASHINGTON – When Char- les McGee slid his P-51 fighter, "Kitten," onto the tail of the flee- ing German FW-190 in the skies over Austria in 1944, he fired his six big machine guns and struck a blow for civil rights back home. Walter McCreary did the same a few months later, when his P-51 was hit by flak on a strafing run ov- er Hungary, forcing him to bail out Major James A. Ellison, left, returns the salute of Mac Ross of of the plane and into German´ Dayton, Ohio, as he inspects the cadets in this Jan. 23, 1942, file hands. And so did Woodrow Crockett's ground crews a few months after There was meaning that, when they stopped a supply train and commandeered special there, you might say, in a gas tanks so their pilots could fly without running out of fuel. Today, the famed black World War II aviation cadre now called preceded what we know the Tuskegee Airmen will be ho- nored in the Capitol Rotunda for as the civil rights its history-making feats when they movement." receive the Congressional ¿Gold Medal, the highest honor that Charles McGee Congress can give to civilians. The achievement of men' such as McGee, McCreary and Crockett myths, the biases – in some cases, the bigger tánks. With less than 24 was simple: They were bold in bat- outright racism - that had been a hours before the mission, word tle and capable in command – at a part of Army policy." time when many in the military thought blacks could be neither. "What we accomplished hasn't always been recognized for, really, student at the University of Illi- what it meant to the country," nois as World War II approached. train and took the larger tanks," he McGee said this week. “There was meaning there, you might say, in a be good duty, he applied for the to put them on the P-51s. It took a civil rights area that preceded fledgling black aviators' outfit that lot of work because they had to what we know as the civil rights would blossom at Tuskegee. movement." From 1942 through 1946, 994 sions in World War II - he said fuel them. They worked all night black fighter and bomber pilots- white fighter pilots usually flew to get the planes ready, bụt by 5 or were trained at the segregated about 50. He flew 100 missions 6 in the morning, we were ready to Tuskegee Army Air Field, accord- during the Korean War and 173 in go." ing to the group's Web site. Ground and support crews the military was by then happy to dered the Capitol Hill honor, he were trained at Tuskegee and else- haveblack pilots, “the airlines we- said he was happy that Tuskegee's where, and all were assigned to ren't ready." exclusively black aviation units that went overseas. Once in com- the glory, Crockett said. There of the sting he felt when he re- bat, they excelled. "It really was the first time that kegee Airmen who werė not pi- was still not afforded the privi- a large group of blacks were in- lots, and on Wednesday, Crockett, leges he fought for. volved in a technical area success- 88, told one of his favorite stories fully," McGee said. "It really set about the unsung ground crews. the background that dispelled the FILE Associated Press photo at the Tuskegee İnstitute in Tuskegee, Ala. day before a big raid on Berlin, and has come down in Tuskegee lore as “the great train robbery." Crockett was based in Italy and learned that the long mission would require his P-51 planes to carry more gas than their two 70- gallon drop tanks could hold. Base officials "came tỏ me and asked me how many planes we had with 110- gallon tanks," he recalled. "I said only three. We knew we needed some more larger fuel tanks." The men searched in 'vain for civil rights area that Tuskegee airman came that an Allied supply train And it helped to change the carrying the larger tanks was en route. The crews hatched a plan to McGee, 87, was an engineering secure the tanks, Crockett said. "They went and held up the country, he said. Sensing that the air corps might said. “Then they worked all night first drain then take off the 70-gal- McGee went on to fly 136 mis- lon tanks, put the 110s on and then Vietnam. The reason: Although Wednesday, as Crockett pon- aviators are getting their due. But deep inside, he feels a little It is the pilots who always get were thousands of dedicated Tus- turned from Europe to find that he "It's more then 60 years later," he said. “Sixty years is a long time It happened March 23,1945, the - a very long time."
Transcribed Image Text:9:33 ll ? Tuskegge Airmen Alrmen to get TUskegee medal for WWII exploits Congress to present top civilian honor BY MICHAEL E. RUANE AND AVIS THOMAS-LESTER Washington Post WASHINGTON – When Char- les McGee slid his P-51 fighter, "Kitten," onto the tail of the flee- ing German FW-190 in the skies over Austria in 1944, he fired his six big machine guns and struck a blow for civil rights back home. Walter McCreary did the same a few months later, when his P-51 was hit by flak on a strafing run ov- er Hungary, forcing him to bail out Major James A. Ellison, left, returns the salute of Mac Ross of of the plane and into German´ Dayton, Ohio, as he inspects the cadets in this Jan. 23, 1942, file hands. And so did Woodrow Crockett's ground crews a few months after There was meaning that, when they stopped a supply train and commandeered special there, you might say, in a gas tanks so their pilots could fly without running out of fuel. Today, the famed black World War II aviation cadre now called preceded what we know the Tuskegee Airmen will be ho- nored in the Capitol Rotunda for as the civil rights its history-making feats when they movement." receive the Congressional ¿Gold Medal, the highest honor that Charles McGee Congress can give to civilians. The achievement of men' such as McGee, McCreary and Crockett myths, the biases – in some cases, the bigger tánks. With less than 24 was simple: They were bold in bat- outright racism - that had been a hours before the mission, word tle and capable in command – at a part of Army policy." time when many in the military thought blacks could be neither. "What we accomplished hasn't always been recognized for, really, student at the University of Illi- what it meant to the country," nois as World War II approached. train and took the larger tanks," he McGee said this week. “There was meaning there, you might say, in a be good duty, he applied for the to put them on the P-51s. It took a civil rights area that preceded fledgling black aviators' outfit that lot of work because they had to what we know as the civil rights would blossom at Tuskegee. movement." From 1942 through 1946, 994 sions in World War II - he said fuel them. They worked all night black fighter and bomber pilots- white fighter pilots usually flew to get the planes ready, bụt by 5 or were trained at the segregated about 50. He flew 100 missions 6 in the morning, we were ready to Tuskegee Army Air Field, accord- during the Korean War and 173 in go." ing to the group's Web site. Ground and support crews the military was by then happy to dered the Capitol Hill honor, he were trained at Tuskegee and else- haveblack pilots, “the airlines we- said he was happy that Tuskegee's where, and all were assigned to ren't ready." exclusively black aviation units that went overseas. Once in com- the glory, Crockett said. There of the sting he felt when he re- bat, they excelled. "It really was the first time that kegee Airmen who werė not pi- was still not afforded the privi- a large group of blacks were in- lots, and on Wednesday, Crockett, leges he fought for. volved in a technical area success- 88, told one of his favorite stories fully," McGee said. "It really set about the unsung ground crews. the background that dispelled the FILE Associated Press photo at the Tuskegee İnstitute in Tuskegee, Ala. day before a big raid on Berlin, and has come down in Tuskegee lore as “the great train robbery." Crockett was based in Italy and learned that the long mission would require his P-51 planes to carry more gas than their two 70- gallon drop tanks could hold. Base officials "came tỏ me and asked me how many planes we had with 110- gallon tanks," he recalled. "I said only three. We knew we needed some more larger fuel tanks." The men searched in 'vain for civil rights area that Tuskegee airman came that an Allied supply train And it helped to change the carrying the larger tanks was en route. The crews hatched a plan to McGee, 87, was an engineering secure the tanks, Crockett said. "They went and held up the country, he said. Sensing that the air corps might said. “Then they worked all night first drain then take off the 70-gal- McGee went on to fly 136 mis- lon tanks, put the 110s on and then Vietnam. The reason: Although Wednesday, as Crockett pon- aviators are getting their due. But deep inside, he feels a little It is the pilots who always get were thousands of dedicated Tus- turned from Europe to find that he "It's more then 60 years later," he said. “Sixty years is a long time It happened March 23,1945, the - a very long time."
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