Wings for This Man
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| Wings for This Man | |
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| Produced by | First Motion Picture Unit, Army Air Forces |
| Narrated by | Ronald Reagan |
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Running time | 10 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Wings for this Man is a propaganda film produced in 1945 by the U.S. Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first unit of African-American pilots in the US military formed during World War II.
The film begins with dramatic footage of aerial combat over Italy, showing an outnumbered American squadron successfully dogfighting a Luftwaffe formation. When the pilots land they step out and are revealed to be black.
The picture then tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, starting with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and the founding of the airstrip near it. The narrator, future President Ronald Reagan, notes that the airmen had to overcome exceeding odds to get the unit created and notes that "there was misunderstanding, distrust and prejudice that had to be cleared away" before the unit could form. A rather standard training/combat/casualty sequence then follows, culminating in the third anniversary celebration of the unit followed by a parade.
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]- Wings For This Man on YouTube
- Wings for This Man at IMDb
- The short film Wings for This Man is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive.
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- 1945 films
- United States government films
- American short documentary films
- American World War II propaganda shorts
- African-American history of the United States military
- Documentary films about military aviation
- Tuskegee Airmen
- First Motion Picture Unit films
- Documentary films about African Americans
- American black-and-white films
- 1940s short documentary films
- 1940s American films
- World War II documentary film stubs