Scrabbled History

Rating: 7/10 (14 September 2003)

Regrettably this is scrambled history. Most Afro-American pilots still alive from that war say they were treated better by the bad guys as prisoners than the good guys as officers.
A good starting point in the theatre for courtmartials of black officers is the Courtmartial of LT Jackie Robinson who refused an MP's order prefaced by a naughty name. The case was a remarkable failure of the all white Judge Advocate's Corp. The defense rendered was less than token.
Further the premise of the movie is all wrong. Detaining powers do not generally allow prisoners to conduct courtmartials.