I was present for filming the parts of this movie that were made at Fort Chaffee AR. I was stationed at Ft Polk LA at the time but my unit, (2/2 Cavalry), routinely went to Fort Chaffee for Gunnery, and they just happened to be making the movie while we were there.
The sign and guard shack for the main entrance to "Tuskegee" was actually a prop set up on a space on the main road into Ft Chaffee, about 200 yards from the WWII barracks my units lived in for our training period.
I thought the movie was very good but I later did some study and found some (understandable) inaccuracies. As a military history lover, I found that the planes in the movie were all P-51 Mustangs, which was (eventually) accurate for the Tuskegee Airmen, but they started their combat tour in P-40 Warhawks, they did not use P-40s because in 1995 when the movie was made P-51 were rare and P-40s were nearly non existent.
The sign and guard shack for the main entrance to "Tuskegee" was actually a prop set up on a space on the main road into Ft Chaffee, about 200 yards from the WWII barracks my units lived in for our training period.
I thought the movie was very good but I later did some study and found some (understandable) inaccuracies. As a military history lover, I found that the planes in the movie were all P-51 Mustangs, which was (eventually) accurate for the Tuskegee Airmen, but they started their combat tour in P-40 Warhawks, they did not use P-40s because in 1995 when the movie was made P-51 were rare and P-40s were nearly non existent.