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

The Tuskegee Airman National Museum in Detroit has confirmed the death of Lt. Col. Harry S. Stewart Jr., one of the last surviving fighter pilots of that era. Stewart, who lived in Bloomfield Hills, turned 100 years old on July 4,

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.