About: Harry Stewart Jr.

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Harry Thaddeus Stewart Jr. (born July 4, 1924) is a retired U.S. Army Air Forces officer, a Distinguished Flying Cross (United States) recipient and a combat fighter pilots within the 332nd Fighter Group, best known as the all-African American Tuskegee Airmen. Stewart shot down three German aircraft in one day. He is one of only four Tuskegee Airmen to have earned three victories in a single day of aerial combat: Joseph Elsberry, Clarence Lester and Lee Archer.

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  • Harry Thaddeus Stewart Jr. (born July 4, 1924) is a retired U.S. Army Air Forces officer, a Distinguished Flying Cross (United States) recipient and a combat fighter pilots within the 332nd Fighter Group, best known as the all-African American Tuskegee Airmen. Stewart shot down three German aircraft in one day. He is one of only four Tuskegee Airmen to have earned three victories in a single day of aerial combat: Joseph Elsberry, Clarence Lester and Lee Archer. Stewart was also a member of the all-African American 332nd Fighter Group Weapons pilot team that won the U.S. Air Force's inaugural "Top Gun" team competition in 1949. Stewart, along with George Hardy and fellow 1949 Top Gun winner James H. Harvey, are among the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen. The Tuskegee Airmen were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2006. In 2019, Stewart co-wrote “Soaring to Glory: A Tuskegee Airman's Firsthand Account of World War II,” co-written by Philip Handleman. (en)
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  • Newport News, Virginia, US (en)
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  • Harry Thaddeus Stewart Jr. (born July 4, 1924) is a retired U.S. Army Air Forces officer, a Distinguished Flying Cross (United States) recipient and a combat fighter pilots within the 332nd Fighter Group, best known as the all-African American Tuskegee Airmen. Stewart shot down three German aircraft in one day. He is one of only four Tuskegee Airmen to have earned three victories in a single day of aerial combat: Joseph Elsberry, Clarence Lester and Lee Archer. (en)
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