My father in law was a tail gunner in WW II in a B25. Just about the only 'story' he would tell is how much his squadron appreciated every time the were excited by these men. When Tuskegee airmen were there, none on the bombers were shot down!
While they did a hell of a job escorting bombers, it is a myth that no bombers were lost while being escorted by the Redtails. At least 27 were lost while being escorted. That said, the losses were exceptionally low and the Redtails deserve extreme respect for the job they did.
You owe a debt of gratitude for the armies that had been fighting since 1939 and had blunted most of Hitler best pilots, not forgetting the Russian. A number of Russian aces shot down more planes twice over than all the tuskegee pilots put together.
We ALL HAVE a DEBT of GRATITUDE for ALL MILITARIES🤔🤔🤔 🤔And to your UNCLE, THANK YOU for YOUR SACRIFICES and SERVICES, you are OWED a DEBT that CAN NEVER be REPAID🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I feel ya brother, 😢, I have a relative who was in a B17, went MIA over the Dutch coast Feb 21 1944, I'm trying to contact the DOD to get the names of the other crew who are MIA, 😢.
I considered myself very priveleged to have met one of these Tuskeegee Airmen at an airshow in Lancaster years ago when I thanked him for his service ,,he simply said ''we just did the job they asked us to do ''
Thank you to all who served, sacrificed and struggled. May God bless you, your families and the souls of your friends who are still on watch. We love you.
My uncle was a ball turrent gunner on a B-17 during the war. The plane developed engine problems and all had to bail out. Him and a waist gunner couldn’t make it out before the plane crashed. He was a Staff Sergeant at the time. Had he survived the war he would’ve been 83 at the time I was promoted to Staff Sergeant and would definitely have had him and my dad pin on my new rank. Thank you for answering the call to duty when we needed you Staff Sergeant Lowell Wamick.
every time i watch anything about the red tails it just makes me cry. these men made a way for a lot of people & my own grandfather who was a pilot in the vietnam war. I love hearing about history.
My dad was 82nd Airborne in WW2. Me I served 24 years as a Hospital Corpsman in 3 tours of Combat with the Marines. My ROTC class instructor was one of the Tuskegee Airmen. They are the reason why I served as well as you are.
In the late 1990s at an open house at Beale AFB in Norcal there were a pair of original Tuskegee airmen selling their Tuskeegee history book. At the same Airshow was the then brand new and semi secret F-117 stealth fighter. The Colonel piloting the Air Force's newest plane, the F-117 was an African American. What a great legacy.
Shame the black US service men only had equal rights in the UK eg as they were not segregated. There is a battle called the battle of bamber bridge where the British villagers fought the US MPs to stop them barring black soldiers from pubs. Many black service men only ever experienced a decent life in the uk in WW2 and were treated as humans unlike the US armed forces.
The bond these men had while on the ground and in the air was strong while fighting for they’re country. despite the the difficulties they faced, they remained strong and head fast of a brotherhood!! Thank you thank you, to all those who served and to those who continue to serve. I SALUTE YOU!!
I once had the honor of actually meeting a member of the Tuskegee Airmen at a Veteran’s Day Ceremony ! He was a retired USAAC \ USAF retired Colonel! How often do you ever meet a legend ?
I am a former Army Captain and live in Birmingham, Alabama. As a Boy Scout, my son earned the Aviation Merit Badge in classes taught by Tuskegee Airmen.
I worked in a senior center as a security officer. In the kitchen area was a gentleman we called Mr. Mel. He would tell me stories about being a Tuskegee Airman. One day I was proud to introduce him to someone and told them he was a Tuskegee Airman. He turned and looked at me and said, " I AM a Tuskegee Airman." I replied, " I stand corrected sir."
When you talk about "The best, of the best, Sir!!", you're talking about these heroes. There have been far too many heroes we've lost over time, including my Marine Dad.
In the 90s I got an award from a local VFW for dealing with a suicidal man that started a fire in the basement of an apartment building during my police patrol shift. A number of Tuskegee Airmen were also in attendance being recognized. One of them afterwards said to me that what they did was nothing compared to what I did. Yeah. I didn't deserve to stand in the same room with them, and they though I was something special. That is the caliber of man embodied by the Tuskegee Airmen.
They are still here in the form of the follow on generations. Putting on the uniform every day. Or soldiers have not faltered, they have performed their duty with distinction. Our politicians on the other hand…
Think about how special these men were. They gave their lives to go back to a country that had bigotry' and racism. This movies is not accurate, I don't care its a great movie in that fact that it battles racisim These men were heros, real heros. We cannot thank them for their service enough.
A Brother/Artist Did Several Painting For The Tuskegee in Philly!! They Loved Him!!Everything He Came Home To Maine,They Had Lobster When He Came Home&Caled&Incredible Honor of Speaking To Them!! So,Wasn't All Us!!We Learned To "DO OUR JOBS!!!" Still Have Copies Bro Sent&Originals w/Philly Chapter Of Red Tails!
@@MakotoAtava Bruh it tells the story it may not be 100% there but it dose tell the story they got most of the things right but at least it's no not like 2012 that move is sucks
It’s made by a theatrical director, not a historian. It’s still a fun movie to watch, let’s just hope Disney doesn’t look towards here and try to make a mini series out of it.
I loved this movie! It shouldn't have taken so long to make it. Have met Code Talkers, but no Tuskeegee Airmen. They were the best of the Air Corp, considering what they had to fight through. Grateful to them all!! From a fighter pilot wannabe.
Say what you want about this film, but it, along with the (more historically accurate) "Tuskegee Airmen", both pay homage to 1 of the bravest fighting units in all of WWII. The Entire Free World is Forever in their Debt. Skin colour be Damned.
Loved this film and it’s a dedicated tribute to all persons of colour country and faith both ww1 and WW2 was a multicultural band of brothers who fought together for a better world and I being a white male will continue to remember all that served continue to serve and sacrificed. We shall never forget
That's not my job I'm a viewer and I know what I like just didn't care for this movie all that much. I thought the script was weak no back story on the training a bit more bio on the pilots. Just some points like I said I don't have to make anything better that's for the movie makers to please me not the other way around.@@erickohlhorst747
I liked the more action in the new version but feel like they missed out with the training side. And the 262 would've exploded the mustang with the 4 30 mm cannons before the 262 took enough damage to be downed. Without killing the 262 pilot of course.
@@bluetopguitar1104Yes, the 262 combat was a joke. In the real world allied pilots would lurk around German airfields, waiting for the jets to take off or land, when they were especially vulnerable.
Bless those 66 men and their fellow soldiers that made this country and their allies free of a tyrannical Axis of power! They will be remembered till the end of days!
Now, what we need. What is a travesty that it hasn’t been done yet. Is a movie about the “Harlem Hell Fighters” one of the most decorated African American infantry units in World War One
Yes, this movie embellished a good bit, and yea Tuskegee Airmen was a better movie but, Red Tails still does a decent job at paying homage to those brave warriors
Raygun was shot down and captured by Germans, he helped some bomber crews escape the POW camp being trusted due to his appearances as he wouldn’t be a spy
He didn’t, “Raygun” was shot down and was captured by Germans, he escaped with other pilots and crew from several bomber wings, he was trusted in their escape plot due to his race, being pretty blatantly obvious he wasn’t a German spy or collaborator.
@@AppalachianMountaineer1863 Oh, I see, so the guy turning up here is not the guy we saw getting shot down. OK, that makes much more sense. Thank you for replying.
It seems not matter how important these men were so ,any people want to remember the racism but not a soul remember their ancestors countrymen that captured and sold their ancestors into slavery.
Чудеса, даже не сылшал, что в войне принимали участие чернокожие пилоты. Исторический факт в том, что они работали только на вспомогательных должностях, повара, грузчики, заправщики и пр. Но, слава великому Голливуду, здесь возможно ВСЁ 🙂
Wasn't sad when Joe Little bought the farm. Seems his character was just added to add tension and insubordination to the story. I also can't see a damaged B-17 requiring 3 P-51's to escort it.
@@raymondyee2008I wrote this post and ended up posting it on the wrong string! it fits in here perfectly though: The movie with Lawrence Fishburn about tuskegee airmen was good but their heroics were heavily exagerated. the aviators might have been good but they had the habit of not listening to instructions to the point where they lost something like 3 pilots during "BASIC FLIGHT TRAINING" because they simply refused to obey instructions! so it was heavily tendentious. on the other hand I did really appreciate it! if you haven't seen the movie _Flyboys_ yet, I strongly suggest you see it. I could go on and on about it, but look up the black aviator Eugene Bullard. I can only write so much here. he was however one of the greatest heroes of WWI having fought for the Americans then when the Americans finally absorbed their aviators into their many air units, but he wasn't, he went to fight as French infantry, eventually the war ended, everyone got a parade and medals but Eugene. he went home to work as an elevator operator. nobody could have ignored this man and deprived him of his well earned merit more if they had tried! however, when Charles duGaul went to visit NY for the first time they asked him what he wanted to see first? Great monuments to great men, the president? French wounded? what? he only went there to see one man, and nobody could understand this. he wanted to meet this amazing man who was an elevator operator! you really need to read about all the heroic deeds he performed for France not to say the US! there were several true parts in this movie but this last part is definitely a true story. Go see the movie! (direction isn't that great but the story and heroics are awesome!)
I'm Nigerian, and yeah barring a few hundred thousands of us who fought in Burma, we don't exactly have that air fighting culture of WW2, yet I know that pilots looked around a lot more than do these guys in Red Tail. We see them stare too long in one or two directions than should be the case. Any real WW2 pilot would be wary of a bogey bouncing him suddenlike from any direction. Surely, they should've been couched on that by the film directors?!?
@@StrikeBuster-b2bI don’t see any jets. And in a time when friend or foe ID didn’t exist you used bright colors in specific patterns to ID your planes. The Tuskegee fighter group was assigned red tails and red prop hubs, it had nothing to do with making them easy targets.
this scene will always stick with me just hearing him yell and seeing lightning after all of the character development and all of the hope that was there the hope that he would never have achieved if he stayed home in the US and even if you went back home to the US given the historical context he wouldn't achieve so the fact that he had a way to achieve something that most black men couldn't dream of for decades to come and to have it ripped from him in such a visceral way both literally and figuratively I mean the inability to do something and to watch oneself die because lightning to easy was like light to dark it was the things that he always wanted to do but could never do himself and to watch that die in front of him that must have been crushing you feel the impact of that death in the seconds after it happened when easy is quiet and he doesn't say anything while his friend is yelling at him you can feel that he just wants to turn upside down and pull that plane into the ground truly a fantastic story and 10 out of 10 directing 10 out of 10 cinematography could have been better if the budget was bigger yes but on the budget they were on it was phenomenal
The bomber aircrews were very angry because the fighter escorts would not stay with them. The Tuskegee fighters would. Now the dirty secret about this. Leading up to the D-Day invasion the main concern was the Troops being attacked as they were being transported and landing on the beaches. The fighters were given instructions to go after the German fighters. The bombers were the bait. This seems cold blooded thing to do but the German fighters had to be destroyed or the landing might not have been achieved. The fighters would not go up to fight other fighters but they would bombers.
Boy, when you get it wrong, you don't hold back! 😂 The truth is that for several years escorts were supposed to stay close with the bombers. This meant the escorts were severely limited, with greater fighter and bomber losses. It wasn't until Dolittle changed that policy that losses went down, because the escorts could range ahead of the bombers, and intercept enemy fighters before they could hit the bombers. This resulted in Big Week, in February 1944, when a large part of the Luftwaffe was destroyed. By June 1944 the daytime Luftwaffe could only put two planes over the invasion beaches. Point being that bomber losses went down dramatically _after_ Dolittle changed the escort policy. Keeping the fighters close to the bombers is poor doctrine, as the Germans learned in the Battle of Britain.
I disagree. While he was cocky, he was a team player in the end and gave his own life to save his C.O. and you could see the look on the face of Easy as the plane went into the ground and the other two when they learned that Lightning was dead.
как же американцы стараются. во всех фильмах негров делают героями, но вот только прикол в том что в то время негры были низшим звеном общества. Афро-американские солдаты регулярно сообщали о жестоком обращении с ними в черную прессу и в NAACP, умоляя о праве сражаться на передовой вместе с белыми солдатами.
The sad thing for me that when I graduated in 1976 I new nothing at all about them nothing!!!!!! Never saw a photo .. So sad . they really don't want me to be proud to be black!!!!
@@aleccap5946 The HBO movie with Lawrence Fishburne was excellent. Red Tails, was made into a cereal comic by George Lucas. A large majority share that "opinion". The lead German protagonist was laughable at best. Evil guy, with a huge scar across his face. Come on now...
My father in law was a tail gunner in WW II in a B25. Just about the only 'story' he would tell is how much his squadron appreciated every time the were excited by these men. When Tuskegee airmen were there, none on the bombers were shot down!
Thanks for u father. God bless him
Freaking REAL and epic! True pride and warrior spirit is all connected.❤
Escorted by those planes
If you click on the 3 dots to the side of your post, you can change 'excited' to 'escorted'.
While they did a hell of a job escorting bombers, it is a myth that no bombers were lost while being escorted by the Redtails. At least 27 were lost while being escorted. That said, the losses were exceptionally low and the Redtails deserve extreme respect for the job they did.
I owe a debt of gratitude to these men.. my great uncle was a B17 navigator in 94BG, 332 SQUADRON.. MIA 5-31-45 😢😮😊
At that time the war in Europe was over. Was he killed in the Pacific?
You owe a debt of gratitude for the armies that had been fighting since 1939 and had blunted most of Hitler best pilots, not forgetting the Russian.
A number of Russian aces shot down more planes twice over than all the tuskegee pilots put together.
I think it was the 94th that was based in the UK.
We ALL HAVE a DEBT of
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OWED a DEBT that CAN
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I feel ya brother, 😢, I have a relative who was in a B17, went MIA over the Dutch coast Feb 21 1944, I'm trying to contact the DOD to get the names of the other crew who are MIA, 😢.
I considered myself very priveleged to have met one of these Tuskeegee Airmen at an airshow in Lancaster years ago when I thanked him for his service ,,he simply said ''we just did the job they asked us to do ''
Thank you to all who served, sacrificed and struggled. May God bless you, your families and the souls of your friends who are still on watch. We love you.
We will never forget them who sacrifice for their country....we will always remember them...
🫡 may they fly and rest peacefully
Amen
Bless Them all🇺🇸🫡
My uncle was a ball turrent gunner on a B-17 during the war. The plane developed engine problems and all had to bail out. Him and a waist gunner couldn’t make it out before the plane crashed. He was a Staff Sergeant at the time.
Had he survived the war he would’ve been 83 at the time I was promoted to Staff Sergeant and would definitely have had him and my dad pin on my new rank. Thank you for answering the call to duty when we needed you Staff Sergeant Lowell Wamick.
Rest in peace, Staff Sergeant Wamick 🫡
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every time i watch anything about the red tails it just makes me cry. these men made a way for a lot of people & my own grandfather who was a pilot in the vietnam war. I love hearing about history.
My dad was 82nd Airborne in WW2. Me I served 24 years as a Hospital Corpsman in 3 tours of Combat with the Marines. My ROTC class instructor was one of the Tuskegee Airmen. They are the reason why I served as well as you are.
Alleluia THESE Men ARE AND WERE THE MACCABEES OF THERE DAY THEY HAMMERED THERE WAY IN HISTORY IN YESHUA NAME JOYOUS AMEN
@stanleynewman4367 AMEN
We owe these Brave Men an eternal debt of Gratitude.
In the late 1990s at an open house at Beale AFB in Norcal there were a pair of original Tuskegee airmen selling their Tuskeegee history book.
At the same Airshow was the then brand new and semi secret F-117 stealth fighter.
The Colonel piloting the Air Force's newest plane, the F-117 was an African American.
What a great legacy.
Shame the black US service men only had equal rights in the UK eg as they were not segregated.
There is a battle called the battle of bamber bridge where the British villagers fought the US MPs to stop them barring black soldiers from pubs.
Many black service men only ever experienced a decent life in the uk in WW2 and were treated as humans unlike the US armed forces.
The bond these men had while on the ground and in the air was strong while fighting for they’re country. despite the the difficulties they faced, they remained strong and head fast of a brotherhood!! Thank you thank you, to all those who served and to those who continue to serve. I SALUTE YOU!!
I once had the honor of actually meeting a member of the Tuskegee Airmen at a Veteran’s Day Ceremony ! He was a retired USAAC \ USAF retired Colonel! How often do you ever meet a legend ?
I Love this because I can see my grand father , he was a mechanic for the 334th batallian WW2❤
I am a former Army Captain and live in Birmingham, Alabama. As a Boy Scout, my son earned the Aviation Merit Badge in classes taught by Tuskegee Airmen.
Danngggg!!! Id be stoked if that were my son. Semper fi Captain
I worked in a senior center as a security officer. In the kitchen area was a gentleman we called Mr. Mel. He would tell me stories about being a Tuskegee Airman. One day I was proud to introduce him to someone and told them he was a Tuskegee Airman. He turned and looked at me and said, " I AM a Tuskegee Airman." I replied, " I stand corrected sir."
When you talk about "The best, of the best, Sir!!", you're talking about these heroes. There have been far too many heroes we've lost over time, including my Marine Dad.
In the 90s I got an award from a local VFW for dealing with a suicidal man that started a fire in the basement of an apartment building during my police patrol shift. A number of Tuskegee Airmen were also in attendance being recognized. One of them afterwards said to me that what they did was nothing compared to what I did.
Yeah.
I didn't deserve to stand in the same room with them, and they though I was something special.
That is the caliber of man embodied by the Tuskegee Airmen.
I think both movies are fantastic. I think the Tuskegee pilots were fearless, disciplined and very skilled!
and this movie is woke hollywood hogwash
I didn't care for it. I guess the purist in me didn't like the fictionalized version of events.
@@bad74maverick1 The first film was great. This film was absolute crap.
@@mattthacker9120 agreed!
The airforce's newest supersonic trainer has officially been named the T-7 REDTAIL after them!
Did not know that. It is an honor, both to the regiment and to America.
It's a t7 redhawk not red tail
@HARTLINE310 and....EVERY tail is painted?
@@fooman2108 still not the name bro
We can’t compare one against the other,when they both honoring the courage they displayed.
Are such men around any longer? God, we need them all.
🤞🏻if any: 👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
🤔would be in their 90s/100s by Dec/2024
The last of them died about 6 months ago
They are still here in the form of the follow on generations. Putting on the uniform every day. Or soldiers have not faltered, they have performed their duty with distinction. Our politicians on the other hand…
I met A-Train while in college. Great storyteller.
Think about how special these men were. They gave their lives to go back to a country that had bigotry' and racism. This movies is not accurate, I don't care its a great movie in that fact that it battles racisim These men were heros, real heros. We cannot thank them for their service enough.
This movie is great and I can't stop watching this movie we should really support black people for their Courage duty and honor.
A Brother/Artist Did Several Painting For The Tuskegee in Philly!!
They Loved Him!!Everything He Came Home To Maine,They Had Lobster When He Came Home&Caled&Incredible Honor of Speaking To Them!!
So,Wasn't All Us!!We Learned To "DO OUR JOBS!!!"
Still Have Copies Bro Sent&Originals w/Philly Chapter Of Red Tails!
I Solute you-all air and ground who supported this effort god bless These fly - men proved what they were asked to do, Love you, miss u grand- pop!
I appreciate the great sacrifice of your grandfather, for all he did and for what he endured.
God bless him and all the great men of the squadron.
Dear God, Please don't let these flyers be forgotten. The price they paid can never be repaid~!!!
We love you all Tuskegee Airmen! Thank you for the freedom and your service.
Say what you want, but "The Tuskegee Airmen" is a much better movie about the tuskegee airman, than this hollywood crap.
Agreed; though neither is perfect. They just got to distracted with silly love stories in this for it to be an effective story.
Really so just because it has a love story it's crap?
@@anthonydolan5997 It's not crap about the Love story, it's crap about really wrong historical and technical things.
@@MakotoAtava Bruh it tells the story it may not be 100% there but it dose tell the story they got most of the things right but at least it's no not like 2012 that move is sucks
It’s made by a theatrical director, not a historian. It’s still a fun movie to watch, let’s just hope Disney doesn’t look towards here and try to make a mini series out of it.
I saw this in the theater. I was GLUED to the screen!!!!!!!!
Thank you for saving everyone you could and thank you for being there.thank you to ALL veterans.
Great animation....to see these WW2 planes zooming around
I remember watching this movie in theaters when it came out.
I loved this movie! It shouldn't have taken so long to make it. Have met Code Talkers, but no Tuskeegee Airmen. They were the best of the Air Corp, considering what they had to fight through. Grateful to them all!! From a fighter pilot wannabe.
Good thing I have just visited the RAF museum in Cosford today
Say what you want about this film, but it, along with the (more historically accurate) "Tuskegee Airmen", both pay homage to 1 of the bravest fighting units in all of WWII. The Entire Free World is Forever in their Debt. Skin colour be Damned.
Thank you to all veterans
Eleanor Roosevelt pushed her husband to recognize the black airmen and their flying ability.
Loved this film and it’s a dedicated tribute to all persons of colour country and faith both ww1 and WW2 was a multicultural band of brothers who fought together for a better world and I being a white male will continue to remember all that served continue to serve and sacrificed. We shall never forget
2:12 Coffee First line Then: “Lightning Destroyed Another One.” 😒
Coffee Last Line Now: “Lightning?”😟😔
Aguin me podrías decir el nombre de esta película muchísimas gracias
Ahí dice en el título del video: "Red Tails".
That scene with his wife reminded me of League Of Their Own's same scene when Betty's husband is KIA.
0:17 I've honestly been there...
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Red Tails
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Great movie. I love it
Was so disappointed in this movie it could have been so much better. I thought the TV movie Tuskegee Airmen was better than this.
Curious how would you have made it better?
A little over the top with the loop over the 262. Pretty good in general but the physics in these aiirplane movies is somewhat inaccurate
That's not my job I'm a viewer and I know what I like just didn't care for this movie all that much. I thought the script was weak no back story on the training a bit more bio on the pilots. Just some points like I said I don't have to make anything better that's for the movie makers to please me not the other way around.@@erickohlhorst747
I liked the more action in the new version but feel like they missed out with the training side. And the 262 would've exploded the mustang with the 4 30 mm cannons before the 262 took enough damage to be downed. Without killing the 262 pilot of course.
@@bluetopguitar1104Yes, the 262 combat was a joke. In the real world allied pilots would lurk around German airfields, waiting for the jets to take off or land, when they were especially vulnerable.
Camaraderie at its best. I love this movie.
I think the Polish 303 squadron were pretty good too! All that generation were, they had courage above and beyond!
This scene hurt to watch when I was younger
Many gave some. Some gave all.
@@fload46d "All gave some. Some gave all."
I like that better.
Bless those 66 men and their fellow soldiers that made this country and their allies free of a tyrannical Axis of power! They will be remembered till the end of days!
Nice my great great uncle was a mechanic
my grand father was a p-40 pilot he survived the war
BRAVO SUPER FILMS
These guys were fuckin legends followed SOP and their ROE to a T for mission success
Warriors Heroes Angels. The Best Of America! LOVE.
Now, what we need. What is a travesty that it hasn’t been done yet. Is a movie about the “Harlem Hell Fighters” one of the most decorated African American infantry units in World War One
Alleluia ThkU Tuskegee AIRMEN U MACCABEE UR WAY INTO OUR HEARTS AND HISTORY IN YESHUA NAME JOYOUS AMEN
on one hand having to fight their country for recognizance then perform exemplary in duty to return home and the cycle began all over again.....damn
The saddest part of the movie.
what an amazing movie
respect to all then men and women of the red tails
They are apart of the band of brothers that are the armed forces heroes one and all
Yes, this movie embellished a good bit, and yea Tuskegee Airmen was a better movie but, Red Tails still does a decent job at paying homage to those brave warriors
So who was the guy that came back to the base at the end of this clip?
He had been shot down during a previous mission.
Raygun was shot down and captured by Germans, he helped some bomber crews escape the POW camp being trusted due to his appearances as he wouldn’t be a spy
This movie doesn't get enough credit.
Great Greatness Personified
Did you all see Tom Cruise was working on a Red Tail P51 in "Top Gun 2".
I'd like to know how the heck he survived that crash.
He didn’t, “Raygun” was shot down and was captured by Germans, he escaped with other pilots and crew from several bomber wings, he was trusted in their escape plot due to his race, being pretty blatantly obvious he wasn’t a German spy or collaborator.
@@AppalachianMountaineer1863 Oh, I see, so the guy turning up here is not the guy we saw getting shot down. OK, that makes much more sense. Thank you for replying.
Tan tan fin de su historia
Happy Birthday Nate Parker!❤❤
...but the racism continue till today...*sigh*
This is what one does in the face of racial prejudice. Excel and prove the bigots wrong!
It seems not matter how important these men were so ,any people want to remember the racism but not a soul remember their ancestors countrymen that captured and sold their ancestors into slavery.
As they said "Live in the Air, Die by Fire"
How about the flying Aztec
would that be "the flying architect?"
this was a great movie. I don't know how historically accurate it was, but still a great movie.
NCIS Special Agent Kensi Blye what are you doing in 1940s Italy??
Чудеса, даже не сылшал, что в войне принимали участие чернокожие пилоты. Исторический факт в том, что они работали только на вспомогательных должностях, повара, грузчики, заправщики и пр. Но, слава великому Голливуду, здесь возможно ВСЁ 🙂
Sirvieron en el 332 grupo de combate del cuerpo aéreo del ejército de los Estados Unidos. No es una mentira. Es verdad
Wasn't sad when Joe Little bought the farm. Seems his character was just added to add tension and insubordination to the story. I also can't see a damaged B-17 requiring 3 P-51's to escort it.
Lightning would have been much too dangerous to be a test pilot in F-80s and F-86s after the War.
Great FX, lousy story. Inaccurate in many respects. Tuskegee Airmen is a much better movie.
Yes indeed and as much as I would love to see Laurence Fishburne in another Tuskegee Airmen movie i’m glad he wasn’t in this garbage of a movie.
@@raymondyee2008I wrote this post and ended up posting it on the wrong string! it fits in here perfectly though:
The movie with Lawrence Fishburn about tuskegee airmen was good but their heroics were heavily exagerated. the aviators might have been good but they had the habit of not listening to instructions to the point where they lost something like 3 pilots during "BASIC FLIGHT TRAINING" because they simply refused to obey instructions! so it was heavily tendentious. on the other hand I did really appreciate it! if you haven't seen the movie _Flyboys_ yet, I strongly suggest you see it. I could go on and on about it, but look up the black aviator Eugene Bullard. I can only write so much here. he was however one of the greatest heroes of WWI having fought for the Americans then when the Americans finally absorbed their aviators into their many air units, but he wasn't, he went to fight as French infantry, eventually the war ended, everyone got a parade and medals but Eugene. he went home to work as an elevator operator. nobody could have ignored this man and deprived him of his well earned merit more if they had tried! however, when Charles duGaul went to visit NY for the first time they asked him what he wanted to see first? Great monuments to great men, the president? French wounded? what? he only went there to see one man, and nobody could understand this. he wanted to meet this amazing man who was an elevator operator! you really need to read about all the heroic deeds he performed for France not to say the US!
there were several true parts in this movie but this last part is definitely a true story. Go see the movie! (direction isn't that great but the story and heroics are awesome!)
Lightening not turning to mist after getting shot with a 30mm autocannon was pretty unbelievable
I'm Nigerian, and yeah barring a few hundred thousands of us who fought in Burma, we don't exactly have that air fighting culture of WW2, yet I know that pilots looked around a lot more than do these guys in Red Tail. We see them stare too long in one or two directions than should be the case. Any real WW2 pilot would be wary of a bogey bouncing him suddenlike from any direction. Surely, they should've been couched on that by the film directors?!?
Nate Parker ( Easy)!❤❤❤❤
I loved the movie because it gave some light on the Tuskegee Airmen. I've noticed it's either the ww2 geeks and racist not liking this movie.
The US military painted their jets red to make them easy targets. So the Tuskegee guys just killed the enemy.
@@StrikeBuster-b2bI don’t see any jets. And in a time when friend or foe ID didn’t exist you used bright colors in specific patterns to ID your planes. The Tuskegee fighter group was assigned red tails and red prop hubs, it had nothing to do with making them easy targets.
This film was crap. The first film with Lawrence Fishburne, was great. Not liking a film, does not make someone racist.
The movie ain’t that bad, honestly for a 2012 movie I’d have this movie because of the sad parts and the dog fight parts because their AWSOME
Another movie that didn't need to be remade just to use cgi.
I salute a proud group of men ✋🏻🇺🇲
Training mission over North Sea. Three B17G and 15 men all MISSING..
My forefathers ❤
Great movie.
STAY FAITHFUL EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE DIFFERENCED
this scene will always stick with me just hearing him yell and seeing lightning after all of the character development and all of the hope that was there the hope that he would never have achieved if he stayed home in the US and even if you went back home to the US given the historical context he wouldn't achieve so the fact that he had a way to achieve something that most black men couldn't dream of for decades to come and to have it ripped from him in such a visceral way both literally and figuratively I mean the inability to do something and to watch oneself die because lightning to easy was like light to dark it was the things that he always wanted to do but could never do himself and to watch that die in front of him that must have been crushing you feel the impact of that death in the seconds after it happened when easy is quiet and he doesn't say anything while his friend is yelling at him you can feel that he just wants to turn upside down and pull that plane into the ground truly a fantastic story and 10 out of 10 directing 10 out of 10 cinematography could have been better if the budget was bigger yes but on the budget they were on it was phenomenal
Poor lighting
The bomber aircrews were very angry because the fighter escorts would not stay with them. The Tuskegee fighters would. Now the dirty secret about this. Leading up to the D-Day invasion the main concern was the Troops being attacked as they were being transported and landing on the beaches. The fighters were given instructions to go after the German fighters. The bombers were the bait. This seems cold blooded thing to do but the German fighters had to be destroyed or the landing might not have been achieved. The fighters would not go up to fight other fighters but they would bombers.
Boy, when you get it wrong, you don't hold back! 😂 The truth is that for several years escorts were supposed to stay close with the bombers. This meant the escorts were severely limited, with greater fighter and bomber losses. It wasn't until Dolittle changed that policy that losses went down, because the escorts could range ahead of the bombers, and intercept enemy fighters before they could hit the bombers.
This resulted in Big Week, in February 1944, when a large part of the Luftwaffe was destroyed. By June 1944 the daytime Luftwaffe could only put two planes over the invasion beaches.
Point being that bomber losses went down dramatically _after_ Dolittle changed the escort policy. Keeping the fighters close to the bombers is poor doctrine, as the Germans learned in the Battle of Britain.
@@CaseytifyTHANK YOU FOR CORRECTING HIM.
Lightning got what he deserved. Dude was a Cancer to the Team.
I don’t get what your saying lightning carried
@@McChezborger Cancer
Lmao nah he low key did carry but you’re funny for that
I disagree. While he was cocky, he was a team player in the end and gave his own life to save his C.O. and you could see the look on the face of Easy as the plane went into the ground and the other two when they learned that Lightning was dead.
@@Charles-i4y Can't be a Team Player when you're putting your Team at risk
ce film est une bouse mais les images sont jolies c 'est sur
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I would have worked with these men in a hot second.
как же американцы стараются. во всех фильмах негров делают героями, но вот только прикол в том что в то время негры были низшим звеном общества. Афро-американские солдаты регулярно сообщали о жестоком обращении с ними в черную прессу и в NAACP, умоляя о праве сражаться на передовой вместе с белыми солдатами.
А разве неграм в те времена доверяли самолёт?! Я понимаю что сейчас в моде толерантность но тогда такого не могло быть.
I want my 10 Cookie!!
Как назавется фильм? Случайно не " Планета обезьян"?
The sad thing for me that when I graduated in 1976 I new nothing at all about them nothing!!!!!! Never saw a photo .. So sad . they really don't want me to be proud to be black!!!!
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Dang
Great film, story and acting. We're never know how this came about for certain, black people were better then most white pilots
This movie was crap. The HBO movie was so much better.
@@mattthacker9120 Opinions eh
@@aleccap5946 The HBO movie with Lawrence Fishburne was excellent. Red Tails, was made into a cereal comic by George Lucas. A large majority share that "opinion". The lead German protagonist was laughable at best. Evil guy, with a huge scar across his face. Come on now...
Its not right how they were treatee... despite what they were ones to have accomplished..