As part of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force's celebration of Black History Month in February, several exhibits in the Air Power Gallery feature contributions from prominent black personnel in Air Force history. During World War II, the U.S. military segregated African Americans into separate units. However, the U.S. Army Air Forces gave blacks a unique opportunity to do sophisticated engineering work in segregated Engineering Aviation Battalions (EABs).
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