Lee Archer
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During World War II, Lee Andrew Archer, Jr. (September 6, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an African-American fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen. He was one of the first African-American military aviators in the United States Army Air Corps, the United States Army Air Forces, and later the United States Air Force, eventually earning the rank of lieutenant colonel. Archer completed 169 combat missions during World War II, including bomber escort, survey, and ground assault, and was credited with five enemy fighter aircraft shot down, but controversy regarding this record arose after his death.
Early life
Archer grew up in Harlem, New York, before attending New York University. He joined the United States Army in the hopes of becoming a pilot after high school. The Army did not allow black pilots at the time, so Archer was sent to a communications job in Georgia as a telegrapher and field network connectivity specialist. He was admitted to the black aviators training program in Tuskegee, Alabama, graduating first in his class and one of the first 994 black wartime pilots to graduate there, as the Army's policy was changed. On July 28, 1943, he was ordered as a second lieutenant.
Later career
Archer retired from the military, joined GM in White Plains, N.Y., where he became one of the first black corporate vice presidents of a large US company. Although he was president, he also managed North Street Capital Corporation, which served clients such as Essence Communications and Black Enterprise Magazine. In 1987, he helped establish TLC Beatrice and founded Archer Asset Management, a venture capital company. Archer was a long-serving New Rochelle, New Yorker.
Archer and four other Tuskegee veterans, as well as retired pilot Lt. Colonel Robert Ashby, Retired Master Sgt. James Tolliver, Retired Colonel Richard Tolliver, and retired Technical Sergeant George Watson Sr. traveled to Balad, Iraq, to speak with 700 servicemen from the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, the successor unit to his all-black outfit.
"This is the new Air Force," he told The Associated Press. He said in the dining room that he had seen "black, white, Asian, Pacific Islanders, people from various parts of Europe. "Is what America is," he said.