The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was ...

The historic, all-Black unit included more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks from throughout the nation, ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps when it was desegregated after World War II and the sister of one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen pilots ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated ... including a brother who was a famed Tuskegee Airmen pilot. He was killed in a mid-air collision ...

Thorpe of Rome, N.Y., are honored by members of the New York Assembly upon their 75th Anniversary of the 332nd Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps ... United States and Canada. (Ronald W. Erdrich ...

In 1945, she was accepted into the Army Nurse Corps as a reservist with the rank of second lieutenant ... She was the sister of one of the famous Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black airmen who fought ...

Catching glimpses of this landscape’s history — present but fading — Yvette wondered how she figured into it. Were any of her ancestors here? Would they have lived in the manors? Would they have been ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after ... regular U.S. Army Nursing Corps and the only woman ever elected as president of the Tuskegee Airmen Inc. Leftenant-Colon is ...