Recording of a lecture on black Second World War pilots given at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, part two, 1 October 1980

Lecture given by General Benjamin Davis, Alfred ‘Chief’ Anderson and Lee A Archer at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, on the achievements of black American pilots.

Gen Davis, Lieutenant Colonel Archer and Alfred Anderson take questions from the audience at the end of their lecture. These relate to the German reaction to black combat pilots, the role of women in the armed forces, the attitudes of young people to the achievements of the first black airmen and the suggestion that the US Army Air Force provided black fighter units with sub-standard equipment.