6 days ago · The following year, stationed at an Army air base in Ohio – where she cared for a number of Tuskegee Airmen – Leftenant-Colon helped save a premature baby girl when her mother was refused ...

Pia Marie Winters Jordan is producing a multi-media documentary on the Army Nurse Corps members who served with the Tuskegee Airmen at Tuskegee Army Air Field during World War II.

Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse and Her Military Sisters focuses on a four-year period from 1942 to 1946 during World War II when up to twenty-eight women from the Army Nurse Corps staffed the station hospital on the base where the future Tuskegee Airmen were undergoing basic and advanced pilot training.

In January 1945 she was allowed to join the United States Army Nurse Corps as a Second Lieutenant reservist and was initially assigned to Lowell Hospital in Massachusetts. In 1946 she was promoted and assigned to 332nd Station Medical Group in …

About The Tuskegee Airmen were not the only ones making history at Tuskegee Army Air Field (TAAF) in Tuskegee, Alabama, during the 1940s. The nurses who served on the base had to fight gender as well as racial discrimination.

At age 21, shortly after the attack at Pearl Harbor, which drew America into the war, he enlisted with the U.S. Army Air Corps. Stationed in Tuskegee, Alabama, he helped form the 332nd Fighter Group and the 96th Air Service Group, and served as supply sergeant and support personnel.

Mar 22, 2023 · Winter’s remarkable service as one of the first Black nurses in the Army Nurse Corps is a testament to the lessons she took with her from St. Philip School of Nursing to Tuskegee, Alabama and her undaunted pursuit in being recognized as …

The Tuskegee Airmen were not the only ones making history at Tuskegee Army Air Field (TAAF) in Alabama during World War II. While in pilot training, they saluted the base nurses who were officers in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps (ANC).

6 days ago · A year later, she transferred to Lockbourne Army Air Field in Columbus, Ohio, where she joined the nursing unit attached to the 332nd Fighter Group, part of the famed Tuskegee Airmen.

Black women in the United States Army Nurse Corps were assigned to Tuskegee Army Air Field Hospital to assist pilots and cadets with physical and psychological problems. Part of their training included ground school instruction, but they never flew during World War II. Circa 1943.