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.

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, an all-Black squadron in the segregated U.S ...

Stewart left the regular USAF in 1951 but continued on in the Reserves before retiring as a lieutenant colonel. As one of the Tuskegee Airmen, Stewart was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2006.

The Brief One of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen has died in Bloomfield Hills at the age of 100. Lt. Col. Harry S. Stewart Jr served in WWII and later became a VP at Detroit’s ANR Pipeline Co ...

FILE - Tuskegee Airmen Detroit Chapter President Arthur Green, left, of Farmington Hills, holds a P-51 D model plane as Lt. Col. Harry Stewart, Jr., center, and Col. Charles McGee, right sign ...

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. Stewart died ...

Tuskegee Airmen Detroit Chapter President Arthur Green, left, holds a P-51D model as Lt. Col. Harry Stewart, Jr., center, and Col. Charles McGee, right, sign their names, June 2012.

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.