November 6, 2023

WWII airpower legend receives honorary promotion to Colonel

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. James H. Harvey III., a Tuskegee Airman and one of the nation’s first African American fighter pilots is honorarily promoted to colonel at Denver’s Empower Field Nov. 4, 2023. (U.S. Air Force photo by Trevor Cokley) U.S. Air Force Academy Strategic Communications U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. – At 100 years old, World War II and Korean War airpower legend U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. James H. Harvey III., one of the nation’s first African American fighter pilots with the famed Tuskegee Airmen, received an honorary promotion to the rank of colonel. The honorary promotion...

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