Copyright Robert Bailey

In a scene repeated on scores of missions in 1944 and 1945, often over German air space, the pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group answer the distress call of a crippled bomber crew of the 15th Air Force. As they are being pursued by a determined Luftwaffe pilot in a Focke Wulf D-9, bent on bringing down the Fortress, the red tailed Tuskegee pilots arrive in the nick of time to break up the attack and escort the grateful bomber crew back home to friendlier skies.