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He said he was attracted to the planes as a young man, and when the war came, he was prepared and had the opportunity to become a pilot, before he learned to fly before he drove and fascism to the world. Help protect from evils.
The Tuskye Airman National Historical Museum confirmed that Lieutenant Colonel Harry Stewart Jr., the most black 332nd fighter group of World War II, is commonly known as Tuskee Airman – his Bloomfield Hills on Sunday Died at the house, Tuskyzi Airman confirmed the National Historical Museum.
He was 100 years old.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
“We are very upset with his death and has spread harmony with his family and friends around the world,” said Brian Smith, president and CEO of the National Historical Museum in Detroit. “Harry Stewart was a very deep character and a excellent service of success, with a prominent career of service he continued for a long time after fighting for our country in World War II.”
On the eve of its centennial anniversary – July 4 – the museum threw a party to Stewart at Colomin A Ying Municipal Airport. He celebrated the honorees and loved ones, and presented a message about ethnic progress: Protect it.
Stewart was the first 1,000 black pilots in the 1940s, who were trained in the Tuski Army Airfield in Alabama before that black and white airmen were allowed to serve together. Only one of them is alive.
In other honors, the museum said, Stewart received a prominent flying cross for bravery while carrying American invaders and brave measures in the fighting during the WWII. He was one of the four Taski airmen who shot three enemy planes in the same day.
In 2006, Tuskyzi Airmen were awarded the Congress gold medal, and in 2019, their memory, “Glory: A Tusky Airman’s first statement of the Second World War,” in which his combat experiments in detail in detail It was reported, published.
Born in Newport News in Virginia, Stewart was taken away from a childhood flight. He said his parents told him that he would have to raise out and see the plane from above trying to wave on the pilots.
Later, when Stewart was about 2 years old, the family moved to New York, and once again, his family remained close to an airfield. A Recorded interviews were posted online–
Then, at a young age, Pearl Harbor was attacked, and he said in an interview Radio Station WAMC-FM In Albani, New York, he saw the P -39 aircraft flying in a tough form and knew that “it would not be too late to call this draft.”
He said he learned to fly first because in New York City, people transported public transport.
After the war, Stuart obtained a mechanical engineering degree from New York University. And in 1976, he went to the metro -detroite, retiring derivative oil and gas consortium, vice president of the ANR pipeline company.
Subsequently, a daughter of Bloom Field Hills, Lori Collite Stewart, and the expansion family survived.
Contact Frank Witel: 313-222-5022 or fwitsil@freepress.com.
