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Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free is a rare gift detailing the experience of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, who was one of 32 Tuskegee Airmen from the 332nd Fighter Group to be shot down defending a country that considered them to be second-class citizens. In this vividly detailed, deeply personal story, Jefferson writes as a genuine American hero about what it meant to be an African American pilot in enemy hands, fighting to protect the promise of freedom. The book features the sketches, drawings, and other illustrations Jefferson created during his nine months as a POW, and Lewis Carlson's authoritative background on the man, his unit, and the fight Alexander Jefferson fought so well.This revised edition covers the story of Jefferson's continuing outreach and education work, as he brings the story of the Tuskegee Airmen to communities and schools across the country, and the presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal to the Airmen in 2007.Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free is perhaps the only account of the African American experience in a German prison camp.

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Publié par	Fordham University Press
Date de parution	15 juin 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780823274406
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	43 Mo

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Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free

World War IIThe Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension G.KURT PIEHLER,serîes edîtor

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free

Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW

Revîsed Edîtîon

Aexander Jefferson, Lîeutenant Coone, USAF, Ret. wîth Lewîs H. Carson

FO RD H AM U N IVERSITY PRESSNew York 2017

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Lîbrary of Congress Cataogîng-în-Pubîcatîon Data

Names: Jefferson, Aexander, 1921– author. | Carson, Lewîs H. Tîte: Red Taî captured, Red Taî free : memoîrs of a Tuskegee Aîrman and POW / Aexander Jefferson, Lîeutenant Coone, USAF, Ret., wîth Lewîs H. Carson. Descrîptîon: Revîsed edîtîon. | New York : Fordham Unîversîty Press, 2017. | Serîes: Word War II: the goba, human, and ethîca dîmensîon | Incudes bîbîographîca references and îndex.

Identîiers: LCCN 2017003966 | ISBN 9780823274383 (coth : ak. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Jefferson, Aexander, 1921– | Word War, 1939–1945—Prîsoners

and prîsons, German. | Word War, 1939–1945—Partîcîpatîon, Afrîcan

Amerîcan. | Unîted States. Army Aîr Forces. Fîghter Group, 332nd. | Word

War, 1939–1945—Aerîa operatîons, Amerîcan. | Word War,

1939–1945—Persona narratîves, Amerîcan. | Prîsoners of war—Unîted

States—Bîography. | Prîsoners of war—Germany—Bîography. | Fîghter

pîots—Unîted States—Bîography. | Afrîcan Amerîcan ighter

pîots—Bîography.

Cassîicatîon: LCC D805.G3 J43 2017 | DDC 940.54/4973092 [B]—dc23

LC record avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov/2017003966

Prînted în the Unîted States of Amerîca

19 18 17 5 4 3 2 1

Revîsed edîtîon

Thîs book îs dedîcated to a those courageous men of coor from the 332nd Fîghter Group who were shot down and împrîsoned în the prîson camps of Nazî Germany:

Name

Lt. Edgar Boden Lt. Gene Brown Lt. Harod Brown Lt. Afred Carro Lt. Robert Danîes, Jr. Lt. Carence Drîver Lt. Thurston Gaînes, Jr. Lt. Robert Gaîther Lt. Newman Goden Lt. Afred Gorham Lt. Corneîus Goud Lt. Wîîam Grîfin Lt. Loyd C. Hathcock Lt. Lîncon Hudson Lt. George Ies Lt. Aexander Jefferson Lt. Joe A. Lewîs Lt. Wîbur Long Lt. Rîchard Macon Lt. Water McCreary Capt. Armour McDanîe Lt. Woodrow Morgan Lt. Starîng Penn Capt. Lewîs C. Smîth Lt. Luther Smîth Lt. Foyd Thompson Lt. Quîtman Waker

Prîson Camp

Staag Luft I Staag Luft I Staag VIIA Staag Luft I Staag Luft III and Staag VIIA Staag VIIA Staag VIIA Staag VIIA Staag VIIA Staag VIIA Staag Luft I Staag Luft I Staag Luft III and Staag VIIA Staag VIIA Staag VIIA Staag Luft III and Staag VIIA Staag Luft III and Staag VIIA Staag Luft III and Staag VIIA Staag Luft III and Staag VIIA Staag Luft III and Staag VIIA Staag VIIA Staag Luft III and Staag VIIA Staag Luft I Staag Luft III and Staag VIIA Hospîta and Staag 17A Staag Luft III and Staag VIIA

Where and When Shot Down

Lînz, Austrîa Vîenna, Austrîa, Juy 18, 1944 Lînz, Austrîa, March 4, 1944 Lînz, Austrîa, Juy 25, 1944 Touon, France, August 12, 1944 Danube Rîver, March 25, 1945 Nuremberg, Germany, Aprî 15, 1945 Budapest, Hungary, November 22, 1944 Lînz, Austrîa, March 20, 1945 Munîch, Germany, February 1945 Hungary, December 2, 1944 Rome, Itay, January 15, 1944 Rome, Itay, June 1944

Troppau, Czechosovakîa, March 23, 1945 Munîch, Germany, February 25, 1944 Touon, France, August 12, 1944 Athens, Greece, October 6, 1944 Bechhammer, Poand, September 13, 1944 Montpeîer, France, August 12, 1944 Kaposvár, Hungary, October 22, 1944 Berîn, Germany, March 31, 1945 Rome, Itay, May 26, 1944 Lînz, Austrîa, Juy 25, 1944 Forence, Itay, June 6, 1944 Spîtta, Austrîa, October 13, 1944 Forî, Itay, June 29, 1944 Hungary, November 22, 1944

Lt. Chares Wîîams Lt. Kenneth Wîîams Lt. Henry Wîse Lt. Carro S. Woods

Staag Luft III and Staag VIIA Staag Luft III and Staag VIIA Staag Luft I Staag Luft III and Staag VIIA

Yugosavîa, Juy 30, 1944 Athens, Greece, October 4, 1944 Poîestî, Romanîa, August 26, 1944 Athens, Greece, October 6, 1944

Contents

Foreword by Lewîs H. Carson Preface to the Revîsed Edîtîon

Aexander Jefferson Tîmeîne

Introductîon

1. Detroît: The Formatîve Years

2. Cark Coege

3. The Makîng of a Tuskegee Aîrman

4. Combat

5. Captured!

6. Staag Luft III

7. Staag VIIA and Lîberatîon

8. Cîvîîan!

Postscrîpt

Appendîx

Seected Sources

Index

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Foreword

Lewis H. Carlson

I irst met Aexander Jefferson în 1993 when I întervîewed hîm for a book on Word 1 War II prîsoners of war. He was one of 32 Tuskegee Aîrmen from the 332nd Fîghter Group who was shot down defendîng a country that stî consîdered backs to be second-cass cîtîzens. He, îke thousands of other Afrîcan Amerîcans, încudîng 992 Tuskegee Aîrmen, had fought agaînst Hîter’s racîsm în a mîîtary so segregated that even îts bood pasma was separated by race. I met hîm agaîn severa years ater when he was an honored guest at the Ceebrate Freedom Festîva în Pîgeon Forge, Tennessee. Jefferson, who had retîred as a îeu-tenant coone from the U.S. Aîr Force Reserve on Juy 1, 1969, happened to be the rankîng oficer among the severa former prîsoners of war beîng honored that day, but he was the ony Afrîcan Amerîcan. I thought to mysef, “What a fascînatîng sîce of hîstory!” Here îs a man who as a young back student în Atanta, Georgîa, îved în such a racîay proscrîbed word that he was not even aowed to wak în the cîty’s parks. Now he îs gîvîng an înspîratîona address to an apprecîatîve, overwhemîngy whîte audîence în one of the former states of the Confederacy. When Aexander Jefferson was commîssîoned a second îeutenant în the U.S. Army Aîr Corps în 1944, whîte Amerîca thought ît knew îts Afrîcan Amerîcans. Un-fortunatey, what ît knew came argey from cutura stereotypes that were meant to reassure însecure whîtes that backs needed to be kept irmy în theîr pace. Back women were seen as fat, jovîa Aunt Jemîmas who nurtured apprecîatîve whîte youngsters. Back men, on the other hand, were expected to pay the “coon,” afraîd of theîr own shadow, and aways cownîng for the amusement of whîte audîences. A movîe actor named Stepîn Fetchît became a star în the 1930s and eary 1940s pay-îng a shuflîng, azy, chîcken-steaîng chîd-man. These same stereotypes coud aso be found în popuar songs, noves and short storîes, crude cartoons, and on weeky radîo shows. In short, here was somethîng ess than a man who ceary was not ready for fu cîtîzenshîp, et aone capabe of lyîng an aîrpane. That such îmages dîd not

I was treated better as a POW than I was back home. —Lt. Coone Aexander Jefferson

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