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

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