The Winged Angels exhibit at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force honors WWII flight nurses who evacuated wounded ...

“Lefty,” as she was known, was one of six siblings who served in the military, starting out as a reservist in the Army Nurse Corps in 1945 and retiring 20 years later as a major in the Air Forc ...

Flight nurse Margaret "Maggie" McCauley stands just four feet 11 inches tall. But she’s a giant among the flight team with ...

After years of being barred from a segregated military, she became the first Black nurse in the regular U.S. armed forces. She was later an Air Force officer. By Clay Risen Nancy Leftenant-Colon ...