SOARING TO GLORY: A Tuskegee Airman's Firsthand Account of World War II

He had to sit in a segregated rail car on the journey to Army basic training in Mississippi in 1943. But two years later Harry Stewart Jr., a 20 year old African American from New York was at the controls of a P-51, prowling for Luftwaffe aircraft at five thousand feet over the Austrian countryside, becoming an American hero by the end of the war. Illus.