News One of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, Lt. Col. Robert Friend, dead at 99 June 23, 2019June 23, 2019 Sherry Barkas, Palm Springs Desert Sun Comments Off on One of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, Lt. Col. Robert Friend, dead at 99 “He was our guiding light,” said Air Museum Director Fred Bell. “It will be a long time before there is another man like him.”