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Old 9th August 2011, 17:22
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Re: Tuskagee pilot shot down SAAF Dakotas?

It seems to me that I read something like that some years ago, the idea behind this "story" being that the black pilot so "avenged" his "fellows" "suffering under South African apartheid".

For me it is just a story. During WWII, apartheid did not exist yet (the law creating it were issued in 1948) and blacks in South Africa were not treated worse than in any British or French colony, or in Southern USA for the matter. Tuskegee airmen had enough opposition from their own white countrymen not to start a private war against SAAF.

So I would say this is a story written by something not knowing well his subject.

I stumbled about this story on the web but quickly forgot where...
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