Tuskegee Airman leading National Memorial Day Parade in Washington, DC

Lt. Colonel James H. Harvey, III, one of many final surviving Tuskegee Airmen and the primary Black Air Drive jet pilot to struggle within the Korean Warfare, will serve at this time as grand marshal for The Nationwide Memorial Day Parade in Washington, D.C.

The parade has been on a two-year-hiatus as a result of COVID pandemic.

Harvey was a pilot with the 332nd Fighter Group, generally known as the Tuskegee Airmen, and later piloted on the workforce that gained the navy’s first ‘Prime Gun’ contest in 1949, based on the American Veterans Middle.

“The parade is predicted to attract a bigger crowd than traditional, based on the organizers. Earlier parades have drawn greater than 200,000 spectators,” The Washingtonian reported. The parade can even be nationally televised.

Harvey, a 98-year-old New Jersey native who attended faculty in Pennsylvania, has lived within the Denver space for a few years.

He not too long ago advised the Denver Gazette about his experiences as an Airman.

“We had been one of the best of one of the best,” Harvey stated. “We needed to be. We needed to maintain proving ourselves all through our careers, due to our shade.”