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.
The historic, all-Black unit included more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks from throughout the nation, including Louisiana.
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.
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More DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots
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.
Air Force reinstates Tuskegee Airmen history video for basic training
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 ...
The irony of the US Air Force playing enforcer AGAINST the Tuskegee Airmen in the year 2025 can be gleaned from knowing that it was the Army Air Corps that conducted the tests in 1941 that led to the first African American Aviators being trained and ready for combat.
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