1944. World War II rages and the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. [snip] As the war in Europe continues to take its dire toll on Allied forces, Pentagon brass has no recourse but to reconsider these under-utilized pilots for combat duty. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, Col. A.J. Bullard (Terrence Howard) awards them the ultimate chance to prove their mettle high above. Undaunted by the prospect of providing safe escort to bombers in broad daylight -- a mission so dangerous that the RAF has refused it and the white fighter groups have sustained substantial losses -- Easy's pilots at last join the fiery aerial fray

A study of the Big Week produced impressive and satisfying figures. Most of these have been derived from .German as well as American sources. First, the Eighth on these five missions sent up more than 3,300 bombers, and the Fifteenth put up another 500. The 3,800 bombers that hit their main targets dropped a tonnage roughly equal to the total bomb tonnage dropped by the Eighth Air Force in its entire first year of operations—approximately 10,000 tons of bombs. Planners had expected losses to be very heavy; they were considerably less than anticipated. The Eighth lost 137 bombers and the Fifteenth another eighty-nine, producing an overall loss ratio of about six percent of the strike armadas. Fighters from the Eighth, Ninth and Fifteenth Air Force flew, respectively, 2,548,712 and 413 escort missions. Twenty-eight fighters were shot down. Approximately 2,600 men were lost—taking into account killed, missing and seriously wounded. [snip] There is reason to believe that the large and fiercely fought air battles of those six February days had more effect in establishing the air superiority on which Allied plans so largely depended than did the bombing of industrial plants. Total USSTAF claims of enemy aircraft destroyed amounted to well above 600, with more than a third of these victories credited to the fighter escort and roughly another third to the bombers of the Fifteenth Air Force, which enjoyed no long-range escort. [snip] When Mission 115 ended late in the day of 14th October 1943, few leaders of the Eighth Air Force doubted but that the Germans had seized a firm grip on air superiority over the Reich. When the Big Week ended late in February 1944, it was becoming just as evident that the Germans had lost what they struggled so tenaciously to attain. That became evident when the Luftwaffe switched its old tactics and adopted a new plan that had caution stamped all over it. The Germans could, when they made the effort, put up an intense and effective defense. They could batter a bombing force with deadly results. But they could not do so, not any longer, whenever they so wanted. They could not do so as a matter of policy.

Righteous indignation & loud declamation belongs on talk shows. It doesn't belong on film.

It's one thing for a political party to attempt this gambit. What the hell is a supposed journalist doing regurgitating such bullshit? Or is Andrea Mitchell this stupid that the Obama Mind Trick worked so well?