My father in law was a tail gunner in WW II in a B25. Just about the only 'story' he would tell is how much his squadron appreciated every time the were excited by these men. When Tuskegee airmen were there, none on the bombers were shot down!
Thank you to all who served, sacrificed and struggled. May God bless you, your families and the souls of your friends who are still on watch. We love you.
My uncle was a ball turrent gunner on a B-17 during the war. The plane developed engine problems and all had to bail out. Him and a waist gunner couldn’t make it out before the plane crashed. He was a Staff Sergeant at the time. Had he survived the war he would’ve been 83 at the time I was promoted to Staff Sergeant and would definitely have had him and my dad pin on my new rank. Thank you for answering the call to duty when we needed you Staff Sergeant Lowell Wamick.
In the late 1990s at an open house at Beale AFB in Norcal there were a pair of original Tuskegee airmen selling their Tuskeegee history book. At the same Airshow was the then brand new and semi secret F-117 stealth fighter. The Colonel piloting the Air Force's newest plane, the F-117 was an African American. What a great legacy.
The bond these men had while on the ground and in the air was strong while fighting for they’re country. despite the the difficulties they faced, they remained strong and head fast of a brotherhood!! Thank you thank you, to all those who served and to those who continue to serve. I SALUTE YOU!!
every time i watch anything about the red tails it just makes me cry. these men made a way for a lot of people & my own grandfather who was a pilot in the vietnam war. I love hearing about history.
I am a former Army Captain and live in Birmingham, Alabama. As a Boy Scout, my son earned the Aviation Merit Badge in classes taught by Tuskegee Airmen.
Think about how special these men were. They gave their lives to go back to a country that had bigotry' and racism. This movies is not accurate, I don't care its a great movie in that fact that it battles racisim These men were heros, real heros. We cannot thank them for their service enough.
I loved this movie! It shouldn't have taken so long to make it. Have met Code Talkers, but no Tuskeegee Airmen. They were the best of the Air Corp, considering what they had to fight through. Grateful to them all!! From a fighter pilot wannabe.
@@MakotoAtava Bruh it tells the story it may not be 100% there but it dose tell the story they got most of the things right but at least it's no not like 2012 that move is sucks
It’s made by a theatrical director, not a historian. It’s still a fun movie to watch, let’s just hope Disney doesn’t look towards here and try to make a mini series out of it.
Loved this film and it’s a dedicated tribute to all persons of colour country and faith both ww1 and WW2 was a multicultural band of brothers who fought together for a better world and I being a white male will continue to remember all that served continue to serve and sacrificed. We shall never forget
Say what you want about this film, but it, along with the (more historically accurate) "Tuskegee Airmen", both pay homage to 1 of the bravest fighting units in all of WWII. The Entire Free World is Forever in their Debt. Skin colour be Damned.
this scene will always stick with me just hearing him yell and seeing lightning after all of the character development and all of the hope that was there the hope that he would never have achieved if he stayed home in the US and even if you went back home to the US given the historical context he wouldn't achieve so the fact that he had a way to achieve something that most black men couldn't dream of for decades to come and to have it ripped from him in such a visceral way both literally and figuratively I mean the inability to do something and to watch oneself die because lightning to easy was like light to dark it was the things that he always wanted to do but could never do himself and to watch that die in front of him that must have been crushing you feel the impact of that death in the seconds after it happened when easy is quiet and he doesn't say anything while his friend is yelling at him you can feel that he just wants to turn upside down and pull that plane into the ground truly a fantastic story and 10 out of 10 directing 10 out of 10 cinematography could have been better if the budget was bigger yes but on the budget they were on it was phenomenal
That's not my job I'm a viewer and I know what I like just didn't care for this movie all that much. I thought the script was weak no back story on the training a bit more bio on the pilots. Just some points like I said I don't have to make anything better that's for the movie makers to please me not the other way around.@@erickohlhorst747
I liked the more action in the new version but feel like they missed out with the training side. And the 262 would've exploded the mustang with the 4 30 mm cannons before the 262 took enough damage to be downed. Without killing the 262 pilot of course.
@@bluetopguitar1104Yes, the 262 combat was a joke. In the real world allied pilots would lurk around German airfields, waiting for the jets to take off or land, when they were especially vulnerable.
Now, what we need. What is a travesty that it hasn’t been done yet. Is a movie about the “Harlem Hell Fighters” one of the most decorated African American infantry units in World War One
The sad thing for me that when I graduated in 1976 I new nothing at all about them nothing!!!!!! Never saw a photo .. So sad . they really don't want me to be proud to be black!!!!
It seems not matter how important these men were so ,any people want to remember the racism but not a soul remember their ancestors countrymen that captured and sold their ancestors into slavery.
Wasn't sad when Joe Little bought the farm. Seems his character was just added to add tension and insubordination to the story. I also can't see a damaged B-17 requiring 3 P-51's to escort it.
I'm Nigerian, and yeah barring a few hundred thousands of us who fought in Burma, we don't exactly have that air fighting culture of WW2, yet I know that pilots looked around a lot more than do these guys in Red Tail. We see them stare too long in one or two directions than should be the case. Any real WW2 pilot would be wary of a bogey bouncing him suddenlike from any direction. Surely, they should've been couched on that by the film directors?!?
@@aleccap5946 The HBO movie with Lawrence Fishburne was excellent. Red Tails, was made into a cereal comic by George Lucas. A large majority share that "opinion". The lead German protagonist was laughable at best. Evil guy, with a huge scar across his face. Come on now...
And all these actors will grow old and pass in there very old age to the pearly gates of heaven. There they will meet the Real Tuskegee Airman of WW 2 in there youth who gave there all and I think they'll say "We are not negros or colored, we are black Americans Actors. We did our best to bring to life your forgotten history with two Hollywood movies 1995/1998? Second one 2008a.d. and overlooked by white historians? Damm boy is there a cantina/Officer mess Hall here in the pearly gates I sure could use a cup coffee 1940's style!!! "
@@StrikeBuster-b2bI don’t see any jets. And in a time when friend or foe ID didn’t exist you used bright colors in specific patterns to ID your planes. The Tuskegee fighter group was assigned red tails and red prop hubs, it had nothing to do with making them easy targets.
I disagree. While he was cocky, he was a team player in the end and gave his own life to save his C.O. and you could see the look on the face of Easy as the plane went into the ground and the other two when they learned that Lightning was dead.
Чудеса, даже не сылшал, что в войне принимали участие чернокожие пилоты. Исторический факт в том, что они работали только на вспомогательных должностях, повара, грузчики, заправщики и пр. Но, слава великому Голливуду, здесь возможно ВСЁ 🙂
как же американцы стараются. во всех фильмах негров делают героями, но вот только прикол в том что в то время негры были низшим звеном общества. Афро-американские солдаты регулярно сообщали о жестоком обращении с ними в черную прессу и в NAACP, умоляя о праве сражаться на передовой вместе с белыми солдатами.
The bomber aircrews were very angry because the fighter escorts would not stay with them. The Tuskegee fighters would. Now the dirty secret about this. Leading up to the D-Day invasion the main concern was the Troops being attacked as they were being transported and landing on the beaches. The fighters were given instructions to go after the German fighters. The bombers were the bait. This seems cold blooded thing to do but the German fighters had to be destroyed or the landing might not have been achieved. The fighters would not go up to fight other fighters but they would bombers.
Boy, when you get it wrong, you don't hold back! 😂 The truth is that for several years escorts were supposed to stay close with the bombers. This meant the escorts were severely limited, with greater fighter and bomber losses. It wasn't until Dolittle changed that policy that losses went down, because the escorts could range ahead of the bombers, and intercept enemy fighters before they could hit the bombers. This resulted in Big Week, in February 1944, when a large part of the Luftwaffe was destroyed. By June 1944 the daytime Luftwaffe could only put two planes over the invasion beaches. Point being that bomber losses went down dramatically _after_ Dolittle changed the escort policy. Keeping the fighters close to the bombers is poor doctrine, as the Germans learned in the Battle of Britain.
I beg to respectfully differ. I think this one terrific film. My late father in law was a black Army infantry officer during WW2 and Korea. He retired a Lt Colonel. I'm white and married his youngest daughter. Still, the old man treated me like a son and I'll always remember that.
@@freddieclark It has a huge following, and George Lucas made it knowing it would not be successful as others showing African Americans in WW2, however that he felt it had to be made. Peace and Love from Singapore 🇸🇬
@@MangoTroubles-007 The only reason it was not a box office hit was the fact that it was simply not a very good film and it was not historically accurate.
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My father in law was a tail gunner in WW II in a B25. Just about the only 'story' he would tell is how much his squadron appreciated every time the were excited by these men. When Tuskegee airmen were there, none on the bombers were shot down!
Thanks for u father. God bless him
Freaking REAL and epic! True pride and warrior spirit is all connected.❤
Thank you to all who served, sacrificed and struggled. May God bless you, your families and the souls of your friends who are still on watch. We love you.
We will never forget them who sacrifice for their country....we will always remember them...
My uncle was a ball turrent gunner on a B-17 during the war. The plane developed engine problems and all had to bail out. Him and a waist gunner couldn’t make it out before the plane crashed. He was a Staff Sergeant at the time.
Had he survived the war he would’ve been 83 at the time I was promoted to Staff Sergeant and would definitely have had him and my dad pin on my new rank. Thank you for answering the call to duty when we needed you Staff Sergeant Lowell Wamick.
Rest in peace, Staff Sergeant Wamick 🫡
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Respect ... ^v^
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In the late 1990s at an open house at Beale AFB in Norcal there were a pair of original Tuskegee airmen selling their Tuskeegee history book.
At the same Airshow was the then brand new and semi secret F-117 stealth fighter.
The Colonel piloting the Air Force's newest plane, the F-117 was an African American.
What a great legacy.
The bond these men had while on the ground and in the air was strong while fighting for they’re country. despite the the difficulties they faced, they remained strong and head fast of a brotherhood!! Thank you thank you, to all those who served and to those who continue to serve. I SALUTE YOU!!
every time i watch anything about the red tails it just makes me cry. these men made a way for a lot of people & my own grandfather who was a pilot in the vietnam war. I love hearing about history.
I Love this because I can see my grand father , he was a mechanic for the 334th batallian WW2❤
I owe a debt of gratitude to these men.. my great uncle was a B17 navigator in 94BG, 332 SQUADRON.. MIA 5-31-45 😢😮😊
I am a former Army Captain and live in Birmingham, Alabama. As a Boy Scout, my son earned the Aviation Merit Badge in classes taught by Tuskegee Airmen.
Danngggg!!! Id be stoked if that were my son. Semper fi Captain
Think about how special these men were. They gave their lives to go back to a country that had bigotry' and racism. This movies is not accurate, I don't care its a great movie in that fact that it battles racisim These men were heros, real heros. We cannot thank them for their service enough.
This movie is great and I can't stop watching this movie we should really support black people for their Courage duty and honor.
We can’t compare one against the other,when they both honoring the courage they displayed.
The airforce's newest supersonic trainer has officially been named the T-7 REDTAIL after them!
Did not know that. It is an honor, both to the regiment and to America.
I Solute you-all air and ground who supported this effort god bless These fly - men proved what they were asked to do, Love you, miss u grand- pop!
I appreciate the great sacrifice of your grandfather, for all he did and for what he endured.
God bless him and all the great men of the squadron.
I think both movies are fantastic. I think the Tuskegee pilots were fearless, disciplined and very skilled!
and this movie is woke hollywood hogwash
I didn't care for it. I guess the purist in me didn't like the fictionalized version of events.
@@bad74maverick1 The first film was great. This film was absolute crap.
@@mattthacker9120 agreed!
2:12 Coffee First line Then: “Lightning Destroyed Another One.” 😒
Coffee Last Line Now: “Lightning?”😟😔
I loved this movie! It shouldn't have taken so long to make it. Have met Code Talkers, but no Tuskeegee Airmen. They were the best of the Air Corp, considering what they had to fight through. Grateful to them all!! From a fighter pilot wannabe.
I remember watching this movie in theaters when it came out.
Say what you want, but "The Tuskegee Airmen" is a much better movie about the tuskegee airman, than this hollywood crap.
Agreed; though neither is perfect. They just got to distracted with silly love stories in this for it to be an effective story.
Really so just because it has a love story it's crap?
@@anthonydolan5997 It's not crap about the Love story, it's crap about really wrong historical and technical things.
@@MakotoAtava Bruh it tells the story it may not be 100% there but it dose tell the story they got most of the things right but at least it's no not like 2012 that move is sucks
It’s made by a theatrical director, not a historian. It’s still a fun movie to watch, let’s just hope Disney doesn’t look towards here and try to make a mini series out of it.
Are such men around any longer? God, we need them all.
We love you all Tuskegee Airmen! Thank you for the freedom and your service.
Thank you for saving everyone you could and thank you for being there.thank you to ALL veterans.
I saw this in the theater. I was GLUED to the screen!!!!!!!!
Good thing I have just visited the RAF museum in Cosford today
Loved this film and it’s a dedicated tribute to all persons of colour country and faith both ww1 and WW2 was a multicultural band of brothers who fought together for a better world and I being a white male will continue to remember all that served continue to serve and sacrificed. We shall never forget
Say what you want about this film, but it, along with the (more historically accurate) "Tuskegee Airmen", both pay homage to 1 of the bravest fighting units in all of WWII. The Entire Free World is Forever in their Debt. Skin colour be Damned.
That scene with his wife reminded me of League Of Their Own's same scene when Betty's husband is KIA.
Great animation....to see these WW2 planes zooming around
Eleanor Roosevelt pushed her husband to recognize the black airmen and their flying ability.
this scene will always stick with me just hearing him yell and seeing lightning after all of the character development and all of the hope that was there the hope that he would never have achieved if he stayed home in the US and even if you went back home to the US given the historical context he wouldn't achieve so the fact that he had a way to achieve something that most black men couldn't dream of for decades to come and to have it ripped from him in such a visceral way both literally and figuratively I mean the inability to do something and to watch oneself die because lightning to easy was like light to dark it was the things that he always wanted to do but could never do himself and to watch that die in front of him that must have been crushing you feel the impact of that death in the seconds after it happened when easy is quiet and he doesn't say anything while his friend is yelling at him you can feel that he just wants to turn upside down and pull that plane into the ground truly a fantastic story and 10 out of 10 directing 10 out of 10 cinematography could have been better if the budget was bigger yes but on the budget they were on it was phenomenal
what an amazing movie
respect to all then men and women of the red tails
BRAVO SUPER FILMS
Camaraderie at its best. I love this movie.
0:17 I've honestly been there...
my grand father was a p-40 pilot he survived the war
STAY FAITHFUL EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE DIFFERENCED
Nice my great great uncle was a mechanic
They are apart of the band of brothers that are the armed forces heroes one and all
Many gave some. Some gave all.
Was so disappointed in this movie it could have been so much better. I thought the TV movie Tuskegee Airmen was better than this.
Curious how would you have made it better?
A little over the top with the loop over the 262. Pretty good in general but the physics in these aiirplane movies is somewhat inaccurate
That's not my job I'm a viewer and I know what I like just didn't care for this movie all that much. I thought the script was weak no back story on the training a bit more bio on the pilots. Just some points like I said I don't have to make anything better that's for the movie makers to please me not the other way around.@@erickohlhorst747
I liked the more action in the new version but feel like they missed out with the training side. And the 262 would've exploded the mustang with the 4 30 mm cannons before the 262 took enough damage to be downed. Without killing the 262 pilot of course.
@@bluetopguitar1104Yes, the 262 combat was a joke. In the real world allied pilots would lurk around German airfields, waiting for the jets to take off or land, when they were especially vulnerable.
Now, what we need. What is a travesty that it hasn’t been done yet. Is a movie about the “Harlem Hell Fighters” one of the most decorated African American infantry units in World War One
This movie doesn't get enough credit.
The sad thing for me that when I graduated in 1976 I new nothing at all about them nothing!!!!!! Never saw a photo .. So sad . they really don't want me to be proud to be black!!!!
It seems not matter how important these men were so ,any people want to remember the racism but not a soul remember their ancestors countrymen that captured and sold their ancestors into slavery.
This is what one does in the face of racial prejudice. Excel and prove the bigots wrong!
Did you all see Tom Cruise was working on a Red Tail P51 in "Top Gun 2".
Happy Birthday Nate Parker!❤❤
My forefathers ❤
How about the flying Aztec
Great FX, lousy story. Inaccurate in many respects. Tuskegee Airmen is a much better movie.
Yes indeed and as much as I would love to see Laurence Fishburne in another Tuskegee Airmen movie i’m glad he wasn’t in this garbage of a movie.
Aguin me podrías decir el nombre de esta película muchísimas gracias
Ahí dice en el título del video: "Red Tails".
Wasn't sad when Joe Little bought the farm. Seems his character was just added to add tension and insubordination to the story. I also can't see a damaged B-17 requiring 3 P-51's to escort it.
Lightning would have been much too dangerous to be a test pilot in F-80s and F-86s after the War.
I'm Nigerian, and yeah barring a few hundred thousands of us who fought in Burma, we don't exactly have that air fighting culture of WW2, yet I know that pilots looked around a lot more than do these guys in Red Tail. We see them stare too long in one or two directions than should be the case. Any real WW2 pilot would be wary of a bogey bouncing him suddenlike from any direction. Surely, they should've been couched on that by the film directors?!?
name Films?
Red Tails
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Tan tan fin de su historia
"Red Tails"
Great film, story and acting. We're never know how this came about for certain, black people were better then most white pilots
This movie was crap. The HBO movie was so much better.
@@mattthacker9120 Opinions eh
@@aleccap5946 The HBO movie with Lawrence Fishburne was excellent. Red Tails, was made into a cereal comic by George Lucas. A large majority share that "opinion". The lead German protagonist was laughable at best. Evil guy, with a huge scar across his face. Come on now...
And all these actors will grow old and pass in there very old age to the pearly gates of heaven. There they will meet the Real Tuskegee Airman of WW 2 in there youth who gave there all and I think they'll say
"We are not negros or colored, we are black Americans Actors. We did our best to bring to life your forgotten history with two Hollywood movies 1995/1998? Second one 2008a.d. and overlooked by white historians?
Damm boy is there a cantina/Officer mess Hall here in the pearly gates I sure could use a cup coffee 1940's style!!! "
Nate Parker ( Easy)!❤❤❤❤
They only escort umit not to loose a heavy..
As they said "Live in the Air, Die by Fire"
I would have worked with these men in a hot second.
I want my 10 Cookie!!
I loved the movie because it gave some light on the Tuskegee Airmen. I've noticed it's either the ww2 geeks and racist not liking this movie.
The US military painted their jets red to make them easy targets. So the Tuskegee guys just killed the enemy.
@@StrikeBuster-b2bI don’t see any jets. And in a time when friend or foe ID didn’t exist you used bright colors in specific patterns to ID your planes. The Tuskegee fighter group was assigned red tails and red prop hubs, it had nothing to do with making them easy targets.
This film was crap. The first film with Lawrence Fishburne, was great. Not liking a film, does not make someone racist.
Poor lighting
Dang
Lightning got what he deserved. Dude was a Cancer to the Team.
I don’t get what your saying lightning carried
@@McChezborger Cancer
Lmao nah he low key did carry but you’re funny for that
I disagree. While he was cocky, he was a team player in the end and gave his own life to save his C.O. and you could see the look on the face of Easy as the plane went into the ground and the other two when they learned that Lightning was dead.
@@Charles-i4y Can't be a Team Player when you're putting your Team at risk
I talked to a B17 pilot and he said that the Tuskegee pilots were over rated. This pilot was a highly decorated pilot.
Чудеса, даже не сылшал, что в войне принимали участие чернокожие пилоты. Исторический факт в том, что они работали только на вспомогательных должностях, повара, грузчики, заправщики и пр. Но, слава великому Голливуду, здесь возможно ВСЁ 🙂
Sirvieron en el 332 grupo de combate del cuerpo aéreo del ejército de los Estados Unidos. No es una mentira. Es verdad
B-17😢
как же американцы стараются. во всех фильмах негров делают героями, но вот только прикол в том что в то время негры были низшим звеном общества. Афро-американские солдаты регулярно сообщали о жестоком обращении с ними в черную прессу и в NAACP, умоляя о праве сражаться на передовой вместе с белыми солдатами.
TRIPLE NICKEL 555⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡
The bomber aircrews were very angry because the fighter escorts would not stay with them. The Tuskegee fighters would. Now the dirty secret about this. Leading up to the D-Day invasion the main concern was the Troops being attacked as they were being transported and landing on the beaches. The fighters were given instructions to go after the German fighters. The bombers were the bait. This seems cold blooded thing to do but the German fighters had to be destroyed or the landing might not have been achieved. The fighters would not go up to fight other fighters but they would bombers.
Boy, when you get it wrong, you don't hold back! 😂 The truth is that for several years escorts were supposed to stay close with the bombers. This meant the escorts were severely limited, with greater fighter and bomber losses. It wasn't until Dolittle changed that policy that losses went down, because the escorts could range ahead of the bombers, and intercept enemy fighters before they could hit the bombers.
This resulted in Big Week, in February 1944, when a large part of the Luftwaffe was destroyed. By June 1944 the daytime Luftwaffe could only put two planes over the invasion beaches.
Point being that bomber losses went down dramatically _after_ Dolittle changed the escort policy. Keeping the fighters close to the bombers is poor doctrine, as the Germans learned in the Battle of Britain.
@@CaseytifyTHANK YOU FOR CORRECTING HIM.
Great movie.
А разве неграм в те времена доверяли самолёт?! Я понимаю что сейчас в моде толерантность но тогда такого не могло быть.
ce film est une bouse mais les images sont jolies c 'est sur
Its not right how they were treatee... despite what they were ones to have accomplished..
So who was the guy that came back to the base at the end of this clip?
He had been shot down during a previous mission.
Как они храбро бились с нацистами эти парни из эскадрильи красные хвосты!
0.13 Abschuss! Horrido!
Alabamos. Lakūnai. Pakariavo
P51 WW2
great story unfortunately it was a terrible movie
Myth
Как назавется фильм? Случайно не " Планета обезьян"?
Jie. Pavarė. Kad. Jolky. Palky. Negrai
🫡sir
All that they went through, and then had to return home to Jim Crow laws.
Yep.... My Grandfather was in the Last All Black Infantry Units. His Wife and Kids had to put up with that garbage in his own nations Capital.
Черных пилотов никогда не было в 1940-е годы..))
Another Hollywood train wreck.
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@@name4792 Red Tails
I beg to respectfully differ. I think this one terrific film. My late father in law was a black Army infantry officer during WW2 and Korea. He retired a Lt Colonel. I'm white and married his youngest daughter. Still, the old man treated me like a son and I'll always remember that.
@@freddieclark
It has a huge following, and George Lucas made it knowing it would not be successful as others showing African Americans in WW2, however that he felt it had to be made.
Peace and Love from Singapore 🇸🇬
@@MangoTroubles-007 The only reason it was not a box office hit was the fact that it was simply not a very good film and it was not historically accurate.
Why do i feel like the movie Memphis Belle is better than this
Will someone please make a movie that truly honors these men! This was crap! Calling you Tyler Perry, Spike Lee, Oprah…etc.
Not Spike Lee. I bought _Miracle at St Anna_ when the local Blockbuster closed just so no one else had to watch it.
It would have been better if it stuck to history, a terrible movie.
@ 3:20 - Ahhh…. just when I was beginning to wonder, “where are the white girls”❓
She was Italian. They didn't get to be "white" until a few decades ago.
This movie? Is on par with Pearl Harbour. Utterly 💩
Lol not a Ace among them one of the worst units in the army air Corp. Just the facts
96 Distinguished Flying Crosses; 14 Bronze Stars; 744 Air Medals; and 3 seperate Distinguished Unit Citations beg to differ.
World’s worst movie
Suuuuper
Покрышкин и Кожедуб смеялияь бы от этой пропаганды афро!
I SAW THIS AT THE MOVIES, ONCE AGAIN HOLLYWOOD LIES ABOUT FACTS
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