A Red Tail P-51 Mustang

ID: 5480 ~ Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Airmen#/media/File:P-51C-18.jpg ~ Creator: Max Haynes

This file appears in: Spokane’s Red Tail: Spit Fire, Jack D. Holsclaw

The Tuskegee Airmen flew a number of planes over the course of the war but are known for the P-51 Mustangs with the distinctive red paint on the tail which gained the group the moniker Red Tails.

This file appears in: Spokane’s Red Tail: Spit Fire, Jack D. Holsclaw

Spokane’s Red Tail: Spit Fire, Jack D. Holsclaw

By Devrick Barnett

Born and raised in Spokane, Jack D. Holsclaw spent World War II flying as a Tuskegee airman.