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 104.
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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, including Louisiana.
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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 away at the age of 104.
One Air Force training video on Tuskegee Airmen is still shelved. Why? It lauds 'diversity.'
Over the weekend, the Air Force responded to a political uproar over the removal of instructional videos on World War II-era African American and female pilots by declaring that the two films had been restored to the service's basic training curriculum.
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 Corps began a program to train Black servicemembers as Air Corps Cadets.
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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 ...
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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 ... regular U.S. Army Nursing Corps and the only woman ever elected as president of the Tuskegee Airmen Inc. Leftenant-Colon is ...
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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 ...
WATCH: Air Force training video on Tuskegee Airmen still mothballed, despite Hegseth pledge
An instructional film that depicts the World War II Black aviators as proof that diversity strengthens the military is not back in classroom use.
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Tuskegee Airmen legacy lives on: Decision to remove Black WWII pilots’ history from Air Force training reversed
Learn how President Trump's diversity, equity, and inclusion ban threatened to erase the Tuskegee Airmen from U.S. Air Force training, but was later reversed.
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Tuskegee Airmen, General Woody Woodhouse honored by Boston City Council
The Boston city council honored the Tuskegee Airmen and General Woody Woodhouse on Wednesday for their efforts in World War II. The mostly Black military pilots and airmen were pioneers, breaking racial barriers.