The historic, all-Black unit included more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks from throughout the nation, including Louisiana.
The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104.
Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, has passed away at the age of 104.
Colon, the first African American commissioned into the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after it was desegregated in the 1940s, died peacefully in her home at the age of 104.
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 ...
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 ...