Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart, Jr., credited with taking down three Nazi planes in one fight while flying with the Tuskegee ...

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

His boyhood dream to be an adventurous pilot was fulfilled thanks to World War II. But, as a civilian, racial prejudice kept ...

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Harry Stewart Jr., one of the last remaining Tuskegee airmen who broke racial barriers serving the country during World War II, has died at 100. NBC’s Joe Fryer remembers a ...

Harry Stewart Jr. recorded three victories in one day and won the first-ever 'Top Gun' contest for military pilots.

(AP) – 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.

Stewart said he overcame polio and a heart problem before joining the Army Air Corps in 1943 and training to fly with about 900 other Black airmen in Tuskegee, Ala. He recalled being one of 355 ...

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.

Harry Stewart Jr., who flew 43 missions over Europe as a fighter pilot and was among the last surviving combat veterans of the Tuskegee Airmen ... only narrowly avoided being strafed while ...