Harry Stewart Jr as an old man with a WWII era fighter plane

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   #BlackHistoryMonth

   "Decorated #pilot Harry Stewart Jr., one of the last surviving #TuskegeeAirmen, dies at 100"

   https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/09/us/harry-stewart-jr-tuskegee-airmen-obit/index.html

   Non #Americans: Tuskegee Airmen were #Black fighter and bomber pilots in #WWII. The Tuskegee Airmen lost significantly fewer escorted bombers than other fighter groups

   Lt. Col Stewart earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, downing 3 German aircraft in a dogfight on April 1, 1945

   He was born on the 4th of July, 1924

   Can't get more #American than that!

   #RIP