Grade 6 Historical Fiction Research: Tuskegee Airmen

 A 2014 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist They became America's first black paratroopers. Tanya Lee Stone examines the role of African Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers, who fought in a little-known attack on the American West by the Japanese. The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, in the words of Morris, "proved that the color of a man had nothing to do with his ability."

History of the Tuskegee Airmen, who became the first black pilots to serve during WWII.