Retired Lt. Col. Luke J. Weathers Jr., a member of World War II’s famed Tuskegee Airmen and a humble combat hero, has died in Tucson at age 90. He will be buried with full honors at Arlington National Cemetery.

The Tuskegee Airmen were the U.S. military’s first African-American pilots.

Weathers was credited with downing two German fighter planes that attacked Army Air Forces bombers he was escorting.