sentences:  Receiving his pilots wings and officers commission at Tuskegee, he was assigned to the 332nd "Red Tail" Fighter group at the Ramitelli Airfield near Foggia, Italy, flying the P-51 Mustang.Assigned to a fighter escort wing protecting bombing missions of the US 15th Air Force, his job was to attack key ground targets and guard the bombing mission against enemy Nazi Luftwaffe fighters.During his 19th mission over Toulon, southern France on August 12, 1944, while attacking a radar installation he was shot down.