By CHARLOTTE KRAMON, Associated Press/Report for America

Lt. Col. George Hardy, the youngest fighter pilot of the Tuskegee Airmen , the nation’s first Black military pilots , has died. He was 100.

Hardy was the last surviving combat pilot of the Tuskegee Airmen who went overseas. He died last week, according to Tuskegee Airmen Inc.

“His legacy is one of courage, resilience, tremendous skill and dogged perseverance against racism, prejudice and other evils,” Tuskegee Airmen Inc. said in a Facebook post.

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