Lillian Kinkela Keil was one of the most decorated women in WWII and the Korean War ... where one had to be a registered nurse at the time, Kinkela then joined the air force and started evacuating ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon passed away at 104 after serving as the first Black woman in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps following its ...

Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman desegregated it in 1948, ...

Colon, the first African American commissioned into the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after it was desegregated in the 1940s, died ...