Of those, Stewart went on to take part in the United States Air Force’s first “Top Gun” competition — and won. Harry Thaddeus Stewart Jr. was born on the July 4, 1924, in Newport News ...

By Alex Traub Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated ... late winter 1944 into the spring of 1945. On one mission, to attack a Luftwaffe base in Germany, Lieutenant Stewart and six other American pilots ...

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 ...

Harry Thaddeus Stewart Jr., the oldest of four children ... exposure to what he called years of being treated as a “second-class citizen” even while in the military. At Tuskegee Army Air ...

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.