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James Henry Harvey III (born July 13, 1923) is a retired United States Army Air Corps/United States Air Force (USAF) officer and former African American fighter pilot who served with 332nd Fighter Group's 99th Fighter Squadron, best known as the Tuskegee Airmen, "Red Tails", or among enemy German pilots, Schwartze Vogelmenschen ("Black birdmen"). [1]
Lt. Col. James Harvey, age 100 Credit - Lydia Thompson (Disney) F rank Moody was prepared to give up his life over the battlefields of Europe. What he didn’t bargain for was giving up his life ...
Lt. Col. James H. Harvey III, who was among 1,007 documented pilots trained at then-Tuskegee Institute for aerial combat during The post Tuskegee Airman celebrates 100th birthday by embarking on a ...
Harry Stewart, Jr., James H. Harvey III and Halbert Alexander. Staff Sergeant Buford A. Johnson (30 August 1927 – 15 April 2017) served as the pilots' aircraft crew chief. [98] Lt. Harvey said, "We had a perfect score. Three missions, two bombs per plane. We didn't guess at anything, we were good."
James H. Harvey (P/AC ... (1st Lieutenant) 1941 to 1967; ... LAPD presents former Tuskegee Airman with first ever Heroes Among Us Award – presented to Lt. Col ...
Stewart's team included the 99th Squadron's James H. Harvey (born 1923), the 300th Squadron's Captain Alva Temple (September 5, 1917 – August 28, 2004), 99th Squadron's First Lieutenant 99th Squadron's First Lieutenant Halbert Alexander (June 12, 1922 – March 25, 1953), [28] who served as an alternate pilot, and Staff Sergeant Buford A ...
The winner was the 332nd Fighter group of Capt. Alva Temple, Lt. Col James Harvey III, Lt. Col. Harry Stewart, and alternate 1st Lt. Halbert Alexander. Post-Cold War budget cuts ended William Tell after 1996, although a commemorative 50th anniversary competition was held in 2004.
Hardy, along with 1949 Top Gun winners James H. Harvey, III, and Harry T. Stewart, Jr., and Dr. Eugene J. Richardson, Jr. are among the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen and the last four survivors that graduated from Tuskegee AAF as single-engine fighter pilots. Of these four, only Hardy and Stewart served as fighter pilots flying ...