Walter Lee McCreary (March 4, 1918 – December 20, 2015) was an U.S. Army Air Forces/U.S. Air Force officer, former prisoner of war (POW), and one of the original combat fighter pilot with the 332nd Fighter Group's 100th Fighter Squadron, best known as the Tuskegee Airmen. He was one of the first hundred African American fighter pilots in history, as well as one of 1,007 documented Tuskegee Airmen Pilots. McCreary's hometown African American newspaper, the ran a November 10, 1944 headline on its front page announcing McCreary's capture by the Germans.