The Tuskegee Airmen had to win two wars at once. Trained at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute in a segregated army that doubted Black men could fly combat aircraft, they had to prove themselves in the air even as they were treated as second-class citizens on the ground. They answered with performance. Flying P-51 Mustangs with tails painted a conspicuous crimson — the "Red Tails" — they escorted heavy bombers deep into Germany and built a formidable reputation for sticking with their charges. On one 1945 mission they downed three of the new German Me 262 jets in a single day. The squadron earned three Distinguished Unit Citations, and its record helped push the U.S. military toward desegregation after the war.

The figure stands in an A-2 leather jacket and officer's cap, yellow Mae West and parachute harness, ready to man up. Set him in a bomber-escort display with a fellow U.S.A.A.F. Fighter Pilot, the Heavy Bomber Crewman whose formations the Red Tails protected, all under the command of General "Hap" Arnold.

W. Britain model 10104. 1/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted base. Boxed.