First organized as a “racial experiment,” a contingent of Black Americans began training to be aviators at Tuskegee, Alabama, ...

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen and earned ...

Harry Stewart Jr., a 100-year-old Tuskegee Airman and decorated World War II veteran who broke barriers in the military, has ...

He was 100. Stewart was one of the last surviving combat pilots of the famed 332nd Fighter Group also known as the Tuskegee Airmen. The group were the nation’s first Black military pilots.

One of the remaining heroic Tuskegee Airmen, Harry S. Stewart, Jr., joined the ancestral fleet on Feb. 2, 2025, at age 100.

Thomas Hawkins served and died in World War II, part of the elite group of African American pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen.

DETROIT — Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated combat pilot of World War II’s mostly Black 332nd Fighter Group, commonly known as the Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was 100.

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen and earned honors for his combat heroism, has died. He was 100. Tuskegee Airmen ...