Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who was the first Black woman in Army Nurse Corps, has died
The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was ...
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Did you know men from Louisiana flew high as Tuskegee Airmen in World War II?
The historic, all-Black unit included more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks from throughout the nation, ...
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, Trailblazing Army Nurse and Air Force Veteran, Dies at 104
Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, has passed ...
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, first Black woman to serve in US Army Nurse Corps, dies at 104
Colon, the first African American commissioned into the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after it was desegregated in the 1940s, died ...
U.S. Air Force revising training course that includes videos of Tuskegee Airmen, female WWII pilots
The Tuskegee Airmen were founded in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama when the U.S. Army Air Corp began a program to train Black servicemembers as Air Corps Cadets.
More DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots
The U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black ...
History vs. DEI: Are Tuskegee Airmen a lesson in diversity or merit?
President Donald Trump's executive order dismantles DEI programs on a federal level, but efforts continue from Montgomery to ...
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who was the first Black woman in Army Nurse Corps, has died
Tuskegee Airmen, 2nd Lt. Samuel G. Leftenant, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Jan. 14, 2016. Leftenant-Colon, who was the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps ...
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who was the first Black woman in Army Nurse Corps, has died
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 ...