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., a 100-year-old Tuskegee Airman and decorated World War II veteran who broke barriers in the military, has died. The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum said Feb. 2 that Stewart, one of the last surviving combat pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group, died peacefully at his home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single day, leading a storied Air Force career before leaving active duty in 1950.

Lt. Col. Harry T. Stewart Jr. of Michigan, one of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, has died.

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

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

Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr. — of World War II’s mostly Black 332nd Fighter Group, more commonly known as the Tuskegee Airmen — died Sunday at his Bloomfield Hills home, the Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum confirmed. He was 100.

Harry S. Stewart Jr., a fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for three kills in a single mission, died Sunday in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. He was 100. Stewart was one of the few remaining veterans who flew with the all-Black Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, during which troops were segregated by race.

He was one of two of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed combat pilots of World War II.

Harry Stewart Jr. learned to fly even before he could drive and helped save the world from the evils of fascism.