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Lieutenant Colonel George E. Hardy, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, has died at the age of 100.

Hardy flew 136 combat missions across three wars: World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

He was among the first African American military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps, a group known as the Tuskegee Airmen.

Lieutenant Colonel George E. Hardy, one of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen , passed away on Sept. 25 in Sarasota. He was 100 years old.

Hardy was born in Philadelphia on June 8, 1925. While growing up in the City of Brotherly love, he was exposed to racism and segregation.

Despite his father being against it, Hardy enlisted in the Navy after graduating high school. While still a teenager, he became the youngest Tuskege

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