Mr. Stewart was one of a tiny handful of still-living Tuskegee pilots who saw combat in the war. He flew 43 missions — almost one every other day — from late winter 1944 into the spring of 1945.

Harry Thaddeus Stewart Jr. was born on the July 4, 1924, in Newport News, Virginia. His family moved to Queens, New York, when he was two. There, watching aircraft taking off and landing at North ...