The Tuskegee Airman National Museum in Detroit has confirmed the death of Lt. Col. Harry T. Stewart Jr., one of the last surviving fighter pilots of that era. Stewart, who died in his Bloomfield Hills home on Feb.

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

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.

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr. was 100 years old. The Associated Press reported that the Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum confirmed his death, saying he died peacefully at his home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, on Sunday.

One of the last surviving combat pilots in the Tuskegee Airmen has died Sunday in Bloomfield Hills. Lt. Col. Harry T. Stewart Jr. was one of two of the last surviving combat pilots in World War II’s 332nd Fighter Group known as the Tuskegee Airmen.

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. — of World War II’s mostly Black 332nd Fighter Group, more commonly known as the Tuskegee Airmen — died Sunday at this Bloomfield Hills home, the Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum confirmed.