One Of Last Tuskegee Airmen Dead At 100

(Bloomfield Hills, MI) – One of the last remaining Tuskegee Airmen is dead. Retired Lieutenant Colonel Harry Stewart Jr. died Sunday at his home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He was 100 years old. Stewart was one of the first one-thousand Black pilots trained in the 1940s at the Tuskegee Army Airfield in Alabama in World War Two, when the military was still segregated.

Stewart earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for his bravery in escorting bombers and was one of four Tuskegee Airmen credited with downing three enemy aircraft in a single day.