Photo: L to R, Earl Graves and Roscoe Brown. Lee Archer is in the wheelchair. Photo by Herb Boyd
By Herb Boyd
Managing Editor, Our World Today
Famed Tuskegee Airman Lee A. Archer, whose exploits during World War II earned him recognition as an ace pilot, died last Wednesday at Cornell University Medical Center in Manhattan said his son, Roy Archer. A cause of death was not immediately determined. He was 90.
While Archer was widely view as a war hero, having flown 196 missions during World War II with his legendary unit, he also distinguished himself in the world of business as an executive at General Foods and as a founder of his own venture capital firm.
“Lee had two great careers,” said Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr., himself a renowned Tuskegee Airman and currently Director of the Center for Urban Education Policy and University Professor at the Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York. “He was a true American hero and an ace pilot and a very successful businessman and entrepreneur.”
