Awards and Tributes
- Lieutenant Colonel Archer was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with 18 Clusters, the Distinguished Unit Citation and many other unit and service awards.
- Archer earned special citations for his work from Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
- Archer and his fellow Tuskegee airmen were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2007.
- Archer was an Honoree of the American Fighter Aces Association.
- Aviation warplane collector and pilot Kermit Weeks restored and flew a P-51 fighter painted in tribute to Archer, in the colorful markings of Archer's "Ina the Macon Belle", originally dedicated to his wife, Ina Burdell.
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