On Easter Sunday 1945, Harry Stewart Jr. and his wingman, Walter Manning, were part of a mission to escort a B-24 Liberator bombing mission over St. Polten, Austria. They were both members of the ...
Jana Somero/Air National Guard) The U.S. Air Force needs to address its dwindling number of fighter pilots if it wants to remain combat ready, according to a recent report by a Washington ...
a decorated former combat pilot who was among the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, the all-Black unit of the Army Air Forces in World War II, and who, after being denied a civilian career in ...
a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen and earned honors for his combat heroism ... Tuskegee Airmen who won the US Air Force Top Gun flying competition ...
Stewart was assigned to Ramitelli Air Base in Italy. He and fellow squadron pilots ... World War II in 1941, Mr. Stewart said he read a magazine article about the first all-Black flying combat ...