Tuskegee Airmen

April 12, 2023

After 2 nights at Bluff Creek in Alabama and getting our mail in Georgetown Georgia, we drove around 60 miles to the town of Tuskegee in Alabama. There were 2 things in Mary’s passport book in the town.

The vast majority of the roads were 2 lane state and county roads. The strange part was they were all posted at 45 mph.

Tuskegee is where, back in WWII, the government set up an air base to train black men how to be pilots and ground support for the aircraft.

The Museum on the Tuskegee Collage Campus, (Tuskegee Institute NHS) was closed.  So we headed to our second stop Tuskegee Airmen NHS at Moton Air Field which was about 4 miles away. The parking lot was on a small hill that overlooked the 2 hangers that the displays are housed in and the small airport is still used to teach flying, in small single planes. I don’t know if it’s a private training school or associated with the collage, but there were many planes practicing take offs and landings.

Besides 2 air planes most of the displays were billboard types with a fair amount of reading.

The End