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 ...

Leftenant-Colon was granted reserve status in the Army Nurse Corps, three months before ... Tuskegee Airmen Inc., rising to become its first female president in 1989. In interviews, she often ...

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. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...

The first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps following its desegregation ... Five years later, she served as the first national female president of the Tuskegee Airmen Inc. While ...