Tuskegee Airman Walter L. McCreary original signature. 3x5inches Walter Lee McCreary (March 4, 1918 - December 20, 2015) was an U.S. Army Air Corps/U.S. Air Force officer, former prisoner of war (POW), and one of the original combat fighter pilot with the prodigious 332nd Fighter Group's 100th Fighter Squadron, best known as the Tuskegee Airmen, Red Tails, or Schwartze Vogelmenschen (Black Birdmen) among enemy German pilots. He is notable for becoming one of the first hundred African American fighter pilots in history, as well as one of 1,007 documented Tuskegee Airmen Pilots.