Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site
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Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site is a unit of the National Park Service at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Moton Field was the site of primary flight training for the pioneering World War II pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen. It was constructed in 1941 as a new training base. The field was named after former Tuskegee Institute principal Robert Russa Moton, who died the previous year.
Established on November 6, 1998, the historic site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places the same day. The site has a temporary visitor center, pending completion of the first phases of a restoration project around 2008. An oral history project, consisting of interviews of hundreds of people involved in the Tuskegee Airmen, was completed in 2005 and will eventually be available to the public at the historic site and at the Library of Congress.
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