New Rochelle man who helped make history, of "Red Tails"

Edward spent Trkkawi when it was over, several minutes talking with a group of children about what they saw on the big screen in Rock Royal multiple new Cinema City.

"This is the best thing about this," said 87-year-tails "red," was the new film about pilots Tuskegee legendary, and black color of the squadron fighter of World War II to racism separate gun in the army at the time, even when the Nazi pilots in the air. "It is inspiring to young people, and gives them something to aspire to."

Trkkawi was 18 in 1942, when he left Harlem for the U.S. Army Air Force and trained as a mechanic for the 322 fighter group, the official name of the Tuskegee pilots. A year later he was in Italy, and save the P - 39, P 47 and P-51 fly.

"We knew that there were examples, and a microscope was there with us all the time," he said. "We were the unity of black in white completely, and we know that we have the mind of P and Q, and be accountable."

Trkkawi watch the movie with your friends on a trip organized by a friend and neighbor Betty Jackson, New Rochelle, author and retired professor, who hosted the meeting in his home.

"I knew he would not see it, and a friend suggested getting a group to see," he said. "He feels happy when she was finished, and this surprised me, and I have not seen him like this before. You can say it means a lot for him."

The Trkkawi, who retired as head of emergency medical service in New York in 1980, and the film produced by George Lucas and starring Terrence Howard did a good job to represent Ramitelli, one of several airports, based in Italy.

"There was a white, except in some cases, most of us when someone was going through, but did not run on the white soldiers in the village. Had no problems, although there was a time when a group of we were in the restaurant and the man told me that I should not be there, "he said with a hint of a smile. "We asked him if he wants to come out and talk with him - he said he was fine, but when we left fled I must say that the local people treated us very well and we were invited to dinner and stuff ..".

While the film focused on the pilots, and scenes showing concern of the ground staff when an aircraft again, or none at all.

"If the man did not return, there was a lot of remorse, a sense of real loss," noted Trkkawi. "You know that the pilots, who were young, 22 and 23 years old and had a cavalier attitude, but I like what I was doing, and depend on you."

Dr. Fred Claire was "amazing" to watch the movie with a friend who was living in it. "You see the story on the screen, and sit next to someone who made history," he said. "It's an indescribable feeling.

Tuskegee pilot buried in Arlington

the same day he retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Lucas Jr. signed a rest time of the heroes of a new war and the army, and the history of the reality of life also played a pilot in World War II on the cinema screens across the country.

Bury the weather on Friday in Arlington National Cemetery in the service, which began with a flyover of the model F - 16 four in the formation of a man missing, and Honour reserved for drivers, through the wing and guards 113 of capital, capital, and the same unit maintain the airspace over the capital.

He died on 15 October at Tucson, Arizona, from pneumonia at the age of 90 years. The funeral coincided with the official opening in theaters in the "red tails", George Lucas and produced the film tells the story of Tuskegee Airmen who are exposed to the beliefs accepted widely that black drivers were unable to fight the battle.

Shortly after the implementation of the bridge, which is one of the aircraft took off from the formation of three children, and walked six Ghattas time the body Horses "were immediately buried among hundreds of slabs of marble that covers clear reasons for the gods of the National. Drummer officer gay, accompanied by the Air Force in the car , won the family continued on the morning of a cold, cloudy Friday. and family members wore red ties and scarves, as was the case at the time "for the funeral of Memphis, and a reference to the pilots and their aircraft painted" Red Tails to match the pieces.
Lucas said from the time the third, 61, and his father was black, and other countries who fought in World War II did not prove they were men, "and then they want their country to love it, but this did not happen, either." Ceremony on Friday at, however, was delivered in the end to recognize his father as a national hero.

She said her daughter, Trina Boyce time this kind of attention to the Tuskegee pilots, and the time is more than what he loves all his life. He said the weather was not in vain, but who wants to share the lessons of the courage of the pilots in the war, and their struggle for equality and his victory over the enemy in time of war, and racism.

"Let's talk about the trials and tribulations of others hard work for children, because they want us to feel like this (racism) is the reason why we can not do," Boyce said in the interview in a call Thursday. "It tells us nothing good comes easy, and I say ... and can overcome any obstacles."

Formed by the Tuskegee pilots in 1941, and prevented black men to go to the U.S. military, but you can make. After years of struggle, the Air Force began allowing African Americans to flight training, although units are still separate.

Established many of the Tuskegee pilots, including pilots and mechanics, and others working in the medical field in the roles of support and training at the Institute of Tuskegee 1941-1949 by Booker T. Washington, and home to the Aeronautical Engineering degree.

Trent said Dudley, a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force who is chairman of the company on the East Coast Chapter Tuskegee pilots more than 900 Tuskegee pilots and American pilots. It is estimated that 250-300 Tuskegee pilots are still alive. We do not know the exact number because some of the non-registration with the seasons.

"As with all pilots, and when you lose one of them, and there is a piece of history that goes with them," said Dudley.

And social norms and questioning the role of the family when she was born back in Grenada, Mississippi

At that time was a railway in the city, the economic gap. Question of the relationship between climate mixed race father and his mother a black line, resulting in family time "to go to Memphis, where he worked in a grocery store.

Boyce said the year after, while studying biology at the College Lane in the city of Jackson, Tennessee, and when I came across an article published in the international journal on the Tuskegee experiment, and on behalf of the Federal Government for the training, army and air force African Americans.

And his mother returned to the family of a prominent Memphis and worked for him, with the help of family links, taking into account the time and finally agreed to their program.

Boyce said the weather was always talking about life-saving maneuver him. Skilled pilot, and was the target for the Germans. Travel in the fight against one, and German planes chasing him and shooting. He was forced to drop down and do a few laps in his plane to avoid the fire, which

He said.
The time flew P-51 and P-39 fighter during the 1942-1945 and earned a Distinguished Flying Cross, according to the National Guard Bureau. Received and the other Tuskegee pilots Congressional Gold Medal in 2007.

After the war, it is time to become the first air traffic control African-American, run the laundry coin-operated, and increase of five children, and open a flight school, and the provision of vocational rehabilitation for veterans and writing a book about his life story that were not published after that time Boyce .

"We educate people about the history of Tuskegee," said the weather, "because it is an important part of American history and American history, not African or black, but in the history of America."