Retired Lieutenant Colonel Harry Stewart Jr was born on the Fourth of July, 1924 and lived to age 100! He had served as one of the renowned combat pilots of the famed 332nd Fighter Group who were the nation’s first African American military pilots. Stewart earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for downing three German aircraft […]
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One of our nation’s last surviving Tuskegee Airmen has died
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Harry Stewart Jr was born on the Fourth of July, 1924 and lived to age 100! He had served as one of the renowned combat pilots of the famed 332nd Fighter Group who were the nation’s first African American military pilots. Stewart earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for downing three German aircraft during a dogfight on April 1, 1945. He was also part of a team of four Tuskegee Airmen who won the U.S. Air Force Top Gun flying competition in 1949. He passed peacefully at his home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan on Sunday. SOC