BIG FLATS, N.Y. (AP) - A Memorial Day weekend gathering of some of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen has reunited them with a World War II bomber pilot their unit escorted on a famous ...

World War II hero Lt. Col. George Hardy, the youngest of the Tuskegee Airmen pilots who fought during the war and helped pave the way for the integration of the armed forces, has died at his Sarasota ...

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. George Hardy, who died this week at 100, was one of the last Tuskegee Airmen to see combat overseas. From flying a P-51 Mustang escorting bombers over Europe to piloting ...

March 29, 2007 — -- In Washington today, 200 of the surviving Tuskegee airmen will receive America's highest civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal. The airmen, who made up America's first ...

Lt. Col. George Hardy, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen who flew in World War II, has died at 100, the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. National Office announced on Friday. Hardy was 19 when he flew his first ...

Lt. Col. George Hardy, the youngest fighter pilot of the Tuskegee Airmen, the nation’s first Black military pilots, has died. He was 100. Sign up for our Daily eBlast to get coverage on Black ...

People walk through the Tuskegee Airmen exhibit at the St. Louis Soldiers Memorial on July 11, 2025. In World War II, the fighter pilots of the famed Tuskegee Airmen were given a strict order by their ...

The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying ...