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Lt. Col. George E. Hardy, the last surviving member of the Tuskegee Airmen who flew combat missions during WWII in Europe, has died. He was 100 years old.

Hardy died on Thursday, a spokesperson for Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., told NPR on Saturday. The organization remembered his legacy as one of "courage, resilience, tremendous skill and dogged perseverance against racism, prejudice and other evils, in a social media post on Friday.

"Colonel Hardy was an amazing man. He was a patriot. He loved his family. He loved his community. He loved our organization," Leon Butler Jr., national president of Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., told NPR on Saturday. "He worked very hard. He worked tirelessly to preserve the legacy, not for himself, but for those that he served with, and he cared about the families of other original Tuskegee Airmen."

Born on June 8, 1925 in Philadelphia, he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps at age 18 in July 1943 and started pilot training at the Tuskegee Army Air Field in December of that year. He graduated from pilot training in September 1944 at age 19, and was commissioned a second lieutenant.

During World War II, he was part of the 332nd Fighter Group at Ramitelli Air Base, Italy and assigned to the 99th Fighter Squadron. He completed 21 missions across Europe, according to the U.S. Air Force. He was the youngest Red Tail fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black aviators of the U.S. Armed Forces, according to the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc.

George E. Hardy, Tuskegee Airman, dies at 100

George E. Hardy was the youngest Red Tail fighter pilot at 19 years old and completed 21 missions across Europe during World War II.

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[MiTasol]

Another obit for Hardy that covers more detail on his time in Korea and Vietnam.

George Hardy - Honorary Unsubscribe

“Red Tails” were some of the best fighter pilots of World War II.

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[MiTasol]

A man who has no connection, that I know of, to aviation but who has improved medical practices in a way that many will need at some time in their lives.

Balfour Mount - Honorary Unsubscribe

There was no such thing as hospice care in Canada in the early 1970s ...or even in the U.S. Dr. Mount decided to change that.

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[MiTasol]

Nothing to do with aviation or military but this woman took on educational bureaucracy and won. I would expect that quite a few of our EU members or their children/grandchildren have taken advantage of her breakthroughs.

Sofia Corradi - Honorary Unsubscribe

"I promised myself that no other student would ever suffer an insult like the one I had suffered."

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