FORT WORTH (1080 KRLD) - Fort Worth's last surviving member of the elite black pilot group, the Tuskegee Airmen, will be laid to rest today
Robert McDaniel died March 19th, he was 96 years old.
McDaniel graduated at the top of his class from I.M. Terrell High School in 1940.
He was drafted and sent to Tuskegee, Alabama for pilot training, just three years after graduating high school as valedictorian and class president.
More than 900 black pilots trained in Tuskegee during World War II.
Funeral services are set for eleven this morning at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Fort Worth.