The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was ...

Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, has passed ...

The historic, all-Black unit included more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks from throughout the nation, ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps when it was desegregated after World War II and the sister of one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen pilots ...

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 ...

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.

Videos about the famed Tuskegee Airmen and the WASP corps ... Army planes. They in turn worked to train new Army Air Force pilots. The women in WASP also ferried aircraft inside the United States ...

The Air Force said it would no longer teach about the Tuskegee Airmen or WASPs after Trump issued an executive order barring ...

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 ...