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This article discusses the nature of race relations in the U.S. Army
Air Forces during the Second World War. America's first all-black
flying units, the 99th Fighter Squadron and the 332nd Fighter Group,
trained at segregated Tuskegee Army Air Field in Tuskegee, Alabama,
carried out tactical and strategic missions over North Africa and
southern Europe in the last two years of the war. While overseas, the
black airmen experienced both positive and negative racial relationships
with other fighter and bomber units of the Army Air Forces, relationships
which often affected the morale and combat effectiveness of the 99th and
332nd. The wartime success of the "Tuskegee Experiment" gave impetus to
President Harry S. Truman's integration of the U.S. armed forces in 1948.

Some topics for qualitative research in psychology are unsuitable for or cannot be adapted to the traditional qualitative designs such as case study, ethnography, grounded theory, or phenomenology. This paper explores reasons for this, and proposes that psychological researchers can use a generic qualitative design in such situations. After discussing the types of topics most suitable for a generic qualitative design, the paper differentiates generic qualitative designs from the more traditional qualitative designs, with particular attention to how generic qualitative inquiry differs from phenomenological psychological research. Finally, appropriate procedures for data collection and for thematic data analysis in a generic model are discussed and described in detail.