George Jewell Iles (November 6, 1918 – December 9, 2004) was a U.S. Army Air Force officer, former World War II Prisoner of War in Nazi Germany, and combat fighter pilot with the 332nd Fighter Group's 99th Fighter Squadron, best known as the all-African American Tuskegee Airmen. On February 25, 1945, Iles was shot down, captured and eventually imprisoned in Stalag VII-A, the largest POW camp in Nazi Germany. On April 29, 1945, General George Patton and his Third Army liberated Iles and 76,000 other POWs.