Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • The Fight for the right to fight
  • A Dream comes true
  • The Road to war
  • A Taste of combat
  • The Sicilian campaign
  • The Dark days
  • From failure to success
  • The 99th Fighter Squadron and Operation strangle
  • The 332nd Fighter Group
  • The 332nd enters combat
  • The 332nd and the 15th Air Force
  • The 99th joins the 332nd
  • Striking oil
  • The Invasion of southern France
  • Striking around the clock
  • The Battle of Greece
  • The Balkan campaign
  • The Collapse of Germany
  • The Organization of the 477th Bombardment Group
  • Drawing the battle line
  • Integrating the Air Force
  • They changed a nation
  • Stories of prisoners of war
  • Leaders of men
  • The Unsung heroes
  • The Enlisted men
  • Footnotes
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Combat record of Negro airmen
  • Record of enemy aircraft shot down by Negro pilots
  • Pilots awarded the Distinguished flying cross
  • Letters of commendation
  • Tuskegee honor role
  • Index