Movie: Red Tails with Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Nate, Dawn and I saw Red Tails last night. Our adventure out to the Studio Movie Grill. I really enjoyed it. Big fan of Cuba Gooding, Jr. This review by Roger Ebert is on target. It was an entertaining movie but somehow I was expecting a little more.

The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of African-American fighter pilots who were trained despite the racism entrenched in the U.S. armed services during World War II. They were deployed in action and achieved fame and many decorations for their skills against German pilots, which included engaging and shooting down Messerschmitt Me 262s, the first jet fighters. So successful were they at escorting American bombers that the white pilots requested them — contradicting a "study" at the time that claimed "Negroes lack the intelligence to operate heavy machinery."