The black airmen trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field during WWII were the first to prove that black men could pilot aircrafts in the U.S. military, and now these Tuskegee Airmen — some of whom are still alive today — will be the focus of George Lucas's next film, Red Tails.
The surviving airmen say they're glad to have Lucas tell their stories — about both the war they fought against Adolf Hitler and the racial wars waging here in the U.S.