Wings of Honor (Black Sabre #3)

By: Tom Willard

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Synopsis: In World War Two, for the first time in American military history, black men were trained as combat pilots and sent into the air war over Europe. The training took place at The Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and those who were awarded their wings there were ever after known as the Tuskegee Airmen. In Wings of Honor, veteran novelist Tom Willard (The Buffalo Soldiers, The Sable Doughboys) tells the story of Augustus Sharps, Jr., a young black man born to the military life who takes down the battered sabre his father and grandfather carried to battle in other wars and against incredible odds, becomes a member of the all-Negro 99th Pursuit Squadron -- the "Red-Tail Angels" -- flying P-40 Warhawks and P-51 Mustangs over North Africa, Sicily, and France. This is the story, both poignant and exciting, of a third-generation fighting man who fights the war against bigotry at home in order to fight his country's enemies abroad.