George Lucas of Lucasfilm wanted to make a about the Tuskegee airmen in action since 1988, and invested in this movie but could not get major studios interested in releasing a story about Black aviators in WWII The movie was released in 2012. In the interval, the script was rewritten. The movie team consulted the historical Tuskegee airmen. The Wikipedia entry (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Tails) assesses the movie an entertainment fairly. The movie uses several Hollywood tropes that make it resemble a WWII movie made in the 1950s or 60s when audiences were moreinterested in movies about the war. It touches on the Italian campaign and the American part of the aerial bombing of Germany. It has aerial combat, tension between branches of the air force over the and the proper use of pilots and the American fighers, the P-40 and the P-51. It has (special effects) scenes of aerial combat between P-51s and German jet Me-262s. ( )

A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard. (fonte: Imdb)

Seconda Guerra Mondiale: l'Aeronautica Civile seleziona tredici cadetti di colore per prendere parte ad un programma sperimentale presso il Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Ciononstante, vari episodi di discriminazione, la mancanza generale di supporto ed il razzismo nudo e crudo rendono la vita degli aspiranti piloti un inferno. (fonte: Wikipedia)

La vera storia dei piloti Tasagagi - i piloti neri che appartenevano all'unità razzialmente separata, i 332th Warriors della American Air Force nella seconda guerra mondiale. I viaggiatori aerei come questo gruppo sono conosciuti come il Mustang P-51 con il naso e la coda rossi.