It's also important to show how subliminal prejudice is so ingrained in many Americans....as you did here of which McRocket points out.
Like it or not, it's a historical FACT that the progenitors of Top Gun fighter pilots were black Americans...and this fact was down played for decades, and still relatively unknown to the general public. You can't down play it's significance no more than the military could after all those years.
Deal with it. (yeah, I'm back!)
I pointed out facts about the group as a whole. It isn't a "fact" that blacks were the progenitors of Top Gun or anything else. For example, John Thach LCDR and later Admiral, invented the "Thach Weave" aerial combat tactic that is still used today. It is on the order of the WW 1 German invented Immelmann combat maneuver.
USAAF training during WW 2 consisted of several stages.
The first was primary training and ground school. Pilots got about 60 to 70 hours of flight time in basic trainer aircraft. These were easy to fly biplanes like the Stearman.
The second stage was basic flying school where pilots advanced to aircraft like the BT9 or 13 to learn flying and basic maneuvers. This was another 75+ hours of flying time
Between the two, students spent about 6 to 8 months in training.
They then went to advanced flying school where they trained on AT 6 Texans then the AT 9, 10 , or 17 to master aerial combat, gunnery, formation flying, and flying multi-engine aircraft if that was their eventual assignment. This was another 70+ hours of flight training. At this point the average pilot had 150 to 200 hours of flying time and got their wings and were formally commissioned as an officer.
From there, they would be assigned to a combat unit and begin training on the type they'd take into combat. This lasted 2 + months depending on the unit and when it was to be rotated into combat.
So, the 332nd would have followed that schedule, just like any other unit.
I can say that the 332nd didn't present anything unique outside of the racial makeup of the unit. In combat in the MTO / ETO the unit proved competent and capable but was in no way outstanding compared to other units present.