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Inspired by aircraft artwork, here's a depiction of a CSAF Pescadora fighter of No.62 Squadron flying over what is supposed to be the southern French countryside, 62nd Squadron being a part of 27th Fighter Wing, the Tuskegee Airsars. The 27th was formed in the summer of 1941 as part of an experiment conducted by the Confederate States Air Force, as the CSA's armed forces was for the most part segregated between saurians and nonsaurians, with the navy being the most integrated. The 27th was initially commanded by Colonel Joseph Brown, a banded cobra who had left to France after in July 1914 and would fly for the Armee d'Air alongside Eugene Bullard and returned to North America after the war to fly cargo and work as a barnstormer in the USA, Canada, California, Mexico, and Haiti before contact with the Confederate States government made him return to instruct trainee pilots in the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Training was hampered by segregation enforced by airfield commanders and by both the officers and enlisted personnel left idle, unable to take up menial jobs in the meantime leading to a strain on housing and culinary in the area around Tuskegee and Moton Field although the former's command was eventually assigned to Major Noel F. Parrish, a Kentuckyite and son of a Baptist minister who was much fairer than his predecessors and even petitioned Richmond to allow the Tuskegee Airsars to fly into combat.
At last in April 1942, No.27 Fighter Wing was considered fit for combat and so it was shipped out of Tuskegee on April 3 and was sent to Nigeria, where Allied forces were still in the midst of pushing the Communards out of West Africa. Flying out of Kano Airport in Nigeria, the Tuskegee Airsars flew missions of air superiority and interdiction against Communard forces in the French Sudan throughout the rest of the spring and the summer and supported Allied ground troops in pushing the Reds to the north, especially after first the Dakar landings in Operation Jeopardy and then Morocco and Algeria landings in Operation Torch. By April 1943, the ComIntern was completely pushed out of Africa and the Tuskegee Airsars were reassigned to Maison Blanche Airport in Algiers to support Allied efforts to liberate Portugal and push into Spain and it was at this point that they received new aircraft. Previously, the 27th had flown AM.18 Maguis, Seversky Se.5, Hurricane Mk.IIB, and Spitfire Mk.VB aircraft but from that point on, they would also fly Bristol Beauforts, De Havilland Mosquitos, Talbot T.25 Martlets, and AM.23 Pescadoras, three of those being twin-engine aircraft but the latter was single-engine. An evolution of its predecessor the Magui, the Pescadora was a fast and long-legged fighter powered by the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. It would become one of the mainstay aircraft of the Tuskegee Airsars going forward, alongside the Spitfire, Mosquito, and the Se.9 Thunderbolt, as No.27 supported Allied landings at Mira, Ilhavo, and Ovar as part of Operation Husky, striking Republican Spanish targets and clashing with the FARE in Portuguese and Andalusian skies. The 27th would escort go on long-range escort missions, all the way into northern France and even southwestern Russia, escorting among others the bombers of No. 46 Bombardment Wing, another CSAF unit composed of Nonsaurian pilots and would commended in their dedication in not losing a single escortee to the enemy.
By the end of the war in Europe in early May 1945, the Tuskegee Airsars had gone above and beyond, defying the skeptics in both the Confederate States Air Force and government at large, proving that Nosaurians were indeed every bit as capable in flying combat aircraft as their Saurian counterparts. Their performance was one of the primary reasons for President Kefeuver's decision to reintegrate the Confederate States armed forces shortly after his inauguration into the Grey House in 1951.
At last in April 1942, No.27 Fighter Wing was considered fit for combat and so it was shipped out of Tuskegee on April 3 and was sent to Nigeria, where Allied forces were still in the midst of pushing the Communards out of West Africa. Flying out of Kano Airport in Nigeria, the Tuskegee Airsars flew missions of air superiority and interdiction against Communard forces in the French Sudan throughout the rest of the spring and the summer and supported Allied ground troops in pushing the Reds to the north, especially after first the Dakar landings in Operation Jeopardy and then Morocco and Algeria landings in Operation Torch. By April 1943, the ComIntern was completely pushed out of Africa and the Tuskegee Airsars were reassigned to Maison Blanche Airport in Algiers to support Allied efforts to liberate Portugal and push into Spain and it was at this point that they received new aircraft. Previously, the 27th had flown AM.18 Maguis, Seversky Se.5, Hurricane Mk.IIB, and Spitfire Mk.VB aircraft but from that point on, they would also fly Bristol Beauforts, De Havilland Mosquitos, Talbot T.25 Martlets, and AM.23 Pescadoras, three of those being twin-engine aircraft but the latter was single-engine. An evolution of its predecessor the Magui, the Pescadora was a fast and long-legged fighter powered by the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. It would become one of the mainstay aircraft of the Tuskegee Airsars going forward, alongside the Spitfire, Mosquito, and the Se.9 Thunderbolt, as No.27 supported Allied landings at Mira, Ilhavo, and Ovar as part of Operation Husky, striking Republican Spanish targets and clashing with the FARE in Portuguese and Andalusian skies. The 27th would escort go on long-range escort missions, all the way into northern France and even southwestern Russia, escorting among others the bombers of No. 46 Bombardment Wing, another CSAF unit composed of Nonsaurian pilots and would commended in their dedication in not losing a single escortee to the enemy.
By the end of the war in Europe in early May 1945, the Tuskegee Airsars had gone above and beyond, defying the skeptics in both the Confederate States Air Force and government at large, proving that Nosaurians were indeed every bit as capable in flying combat aircraft as their Saurian counterparts. Their performance was one of the primary reasons for President Kefeuver's decision to reintegrate the Confederate States armed forces shortly after his inauguration into the Grey House in 1951.
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