Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW, Revised Edition

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free is a rare gift detailing the experience of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, who was one of 32 Tuskegee Airmen from the 332nd Fighter Group to be shot down defending a country that considered them to be second-class citizens. In this vividly detailed, deeply personal story, Jefferson writes as a genuine American hero about what it meant to be an African American pilot in enemy hands, fighting to protect the promise of freedom. The book features the sketches, drawings, and other illustrations Jefferson created during his nine months as a POW, and Lewis Carlson’s authoritative background on the man, his unit, and the fight Alexander Jefferson fought so well.

This revised edition covers the story of Jefferson’s continuing outreach and education work, as he brings the story of the Tuskegee Airmen to communities and schools across the country, and the presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal to the Airmen in 2007.

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free is perhaps the only account of the African American experience in a German prison camp.

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Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW, Revised Edition

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free is a rare gift detailing the experience of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, who was one of 32 Tuskegee Airmen from the 332nd Fighter Group to be shot down defending a country that considered them to be second-class citizens. In this vividly detailed, deeply personal story, Jefferson writes as a genuine American hero about what it meant to be an African American pilot in enemy hands, fighting to protect the promise of freedom. The book features the sketches, drawings, and other illustrations Jefferson created during his nine months as a POW, and Lewis Carlson’s authoritative background on the man, his unit, and the fight Alexander Jefferson fought so well.

This revised edition covers the story of Jefferson’s continuing outreach and education work, as he brings the story of the Tuskegee Airmen to communities and schools across the country, and the presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal to the Airmen in 2007.

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free is perhaps the only account of the African American experience in a German prison camp.

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Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW, Revised Edition

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW, Revised Edition

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW, Revised Edition

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW, Revised Edition

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Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free is a rare gift detailing the experience of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, who was one of 32 Tuskegee Airmen from the 332nd Fighter Group to be shot down defending a country that considered them to be second-class citizens. In this vividly detailed, deeply personal story, Jefferson writes as a genuine American hero about what it meant to be an African American pilot in enemy hands, fighting to protect the promise of freedom. The book features the sketches, drawings, and other illustrations Jefferson created during his nine months as a POW, and Lewis Carlson’s authoritative background on the man, his unit, and the fight Alexander Jefferson fought so well.

This revised edition covers the story of Jefferson’s continuing outreach and education work, as he brings the story of the Tuskegee Airmen to communities and schools across the country, and the presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal to the Airmen in 2007.

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free is perhaps the only account of the African American experience in a German prison camp.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780823274406
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 06/15/2017
Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 69 MB
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About the Author

Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, (USAF, Ret.) (1921-2022) had degrees from Clark College and Wayne State University. He won numerous citations and was active in Veterans’ and Tuskegee Airmen organizations. He served in Michigan public schools for thirty years as a teacher and administrator, and lived outside Detroit in Southfield. He was an educator and a hero.
Lewis H. Carlson is co-author of Life behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Photographs of Prisoner of War Angelo M. Spinelli (Fordham).

Table of Contents

Dedication
Foreword by Lewis H. Carlson
Alexander Jefferson Timeline
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Detroit: The Formative Years
Chapter 2. Clark College
Chapter 3. The Making of a Tuskegee Airman
Chapter 4. Combat
Chapter 5. Captured!
Chapter 6. Stalag Luft III
Chapter 7. Stalag VIIA and Liberation
Chapter 8. Civilian!
Postscript
Appendix
The Legacy Lives On!
Selected Sources
Index
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