Highly decorated Tuskegee Airman Brigadier Gen. Charles McGee passed away at 102, News4  reports . McGee died in his sleep on Sunday, a family spokesperson confirmed. "He had his right hand over his heart and was smiling serenely," his youngest daughter Yvonne McGee wrote in a family statement, according to News4. Charles joined the trial program constructed to train Black soldiers as pilots for the Army Air Corps, which was obligated to admit Black Americans into the aerial warfare unit of the United States Army, AP News  reports .  In Oct. 1942, he was dispatched to the Tuskegee Army Air Field located in Alabama to train as a pilot, according to his biography on the National Aviation Hall of Fame website. “You could say that one of the things we were fighting for was equality,” he said in an interview to AP News in 1995. “Equality of opportunity. We knew we had the same skills, or better.” Charles graduated from aviation school in June 1943, and by 1944, he enlisted into the...