Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Red Tails" in English language version.
Eugene Jacques Bullard of 10 East 116th Street, a Negro flier who was honored in France for ...
the embarrassing, emasculated 332nd squadron leading characters assigned to Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding Jr. ... Meanwhile, Howard's character, Col. A.J. Bullard – a nice tip of the pilot's cap to Eugene Bullard, a Black pilot who flew for the Lafayette Esquadrille during WWI – is a thinly disguised representation of the Tuskegee Airmens' primary leader, Lt. Col. (later Gen.) Benjamin O. Davis. In "Red Tails," both Howard and Gooding are little more than administrative pencil pushers far removed from any form of combat ... In reality, Davis and other senior flight squadron officers all had their own planes and fully participated in combat missions. This was true not just in the Black units but all the white units as well. During WWII the Army Air Corps was an OJT air force. For everyone it was an on the job training because military air science was a new field and few knew very much about it.