The Tuskegee Airmen were unique because

The Tuskegee Airmen were African American military pilots who trained at Tuskegee, Alabama, and served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. Their significance was that they formed an African American flying unit at a time when the military was segregated. They did fight in the war against Germany, but that was not what made them unique; they were not the first integrated Army unit.

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