First organized as a “racial experiment,” a contingent of Black Americans began training to be aviators at Tuskegee, Alabama, ...
Harry Stewart Jr., a 100-year-old Tuskegee Airman and decorated World War II veteran who broke barriers in the military, has ...
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. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single ...
The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum confirmed the death of Retired Lieutenant Colonel Harry Stewart Jr. to the ...
The group were the nation’s first Black military pilots ... He was also part of a team of four Tuskegee Airmen who won the US Air Force Top Gun flying competition in 1949, although their ...
He was also among four Tuskegee Airmen who won the 1949 U.S. Air Force Top Gun flying competition; they got first place in the propeller plane category. The accomplishment was acknowledged decades ...
One of the remaining heroic Tuskegee Airmen, Harry S. Stewart, Jr., joined the ancestral fleet on Feb. 2, 2025, at age 100.