WWII Tuskegee Airman Harry Stewart Jr. dies at 100-years-old

DETROIT, MICHIGAN - JULY 4: Tuskegee Airman, Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr. celebrates his 100th birthday at the Coleman A. Young International Airport on July 4, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Monica Morgan/Getty Images)
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (FOX 2) - One of the last surviving combat pilots of the Tuskegee Airmen in WWII and Bloomfield Hills resident, has died.
The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum made the announcement on Monday that Lt. Col. Harry S. Stewart Jr died in his Bloomfield Hills home on Feb. 2.
He was born in Newport News, Virginia on July 4, 1924.
Stewart served in the famous 332nd Fighter Group, escorting bombers during WWII and being one of four Tuskegee Airmen who shot down three enemy aircraft in a single day.
The museum said he was also part of the team who won the Air Force’s first Top Gun Aerial Combat competition in 1949.
Stewart earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for his bravery during the war.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN - JULY 4: Tuskegee Airman, Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr. celebrates his 100th birthday at the Coleman A. Young International Airport on July 4, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Monica Morgan/Getty Images)
"Harry Stewart was a kind man of profound character and accomplishment with a distinguished career of service he continued long after fighting for our country in World War II," said Brian Smith, President and CEO of the Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum. "We are deeply saddened by his passing and extend our condolences to his family and friends around the world."
The museum said after WWII, Stewart went to college at New York University and graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1963.
He would then become Vice President at Detroit’s ANR Pipeline Co., where he retired.
He is survived by his daughter, Lori Collette Stewart.
The Source: FOX 2 used information from the Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum.