Nation One of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, Lt. Col. Robert Friend, dead at 99 June 23, 2019Sherry Barkas, Palm Springs Desert SunComments 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.”