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The '''Tuskegee Airmen''' {{IPAc-en|t|ʌ|s|ˈ|k|iː|ɡ|iː}}<ref>See [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Tuskegee "Pronunciation of Tuskegee"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130014940/https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Tuskegee |date=30 November 2021 }}, thefreedictionary.com; retrieved 3 October 2010.</ref>
All black military pilots who trained in the United States trained at Griel Field, Kennedy Field, [[Moton Field]], Shorter Field, and the Tuskegee Army Air Fields.<ref name=":1">{{cite journal|last=Haulman|first=Daniel L.|date=June 2014|title=The Tuskegee Airmen Airfields|journal=Air Force Magazine|page=63}}</ref> They were educated at the [[Tuskegee University|Tuskegee Institute]] (now Tuskegee University), located near [[Tuskegee, Alabama]]. Of the 922 pilots, five were [[Haitians]] from the [[Armed Forces of Haiti|Haitian Air Force]] and one pilot was from [[Trinidad]].<ref>[http://www.tuskegee.edu/about_us/legacy_of_fame/tuskegee_airmen/tuskegee_airmen_pilot_listing.aspx "Tuskegee Airmen Pilot Listing"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203000349/http://www.tuskegee.edu/about_us/legacy_of_fame/tuskegee_airmen/tuskegee_airmen_pilot_listing.aspx |date=3 December 2013}}, tuskegee.edu; retrieved 13 May 2014.</ref> It also included an airman born in the [[Dominican Republic]] and one born in [[Jamaica]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/unknown-latino-tuskegee-airman-discovered/433479/|title=An Unknown Latino Tuskegee Airman Has Been Discovered|first=Juleyka Lantigua-Williams, National|last=Journal|date=5 November 2015|website=The Atlantic|access-date=22 June 2019|archive-date=8 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408173241/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/unknown-latino-tuskegee-airman-discovered/433479/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>https://staging.jamaicans.com/7-things-to-know-about-the-jamaican-born-tuskegee-airman-lt-victor-terrelonge/</ref>
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