In 1941, the Army Air Force began training black Americans as military pilots at Moton Field and the Army Air Field in Tuskegee, Alabama -- from which they took their legendary name: the Tuskegee Airmen. Their assignments were to fly escort and conduct combat missions throughout the Mediterranean. Flying over 200 missions as heavy bomber escrots, they never lost a fighter to an enemy fighter.

Lt. Robert Williams flew 50 missions, stationed in Italy with the 100th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group. He destroyed two enemy aircraft between 1944-45. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with six Oak Leaf Clusters. His character was played by Laurence Fishburne in the 1995 HBO film "The Tuskegee Airmen", for which he wrote the screenplay.

Features include fully functional landing gear, flaps, rudder, a sliding canopy, and removable engine cowling. Each replica is serialized. A bonus 96 page book is included with purchase: Mustang Aces of the Ninth & Fifteenth Air Forces & the RAF by Jerry Scutts.

-Staff