Well done, Mrs. Leftenant-Colon! The first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps following its desegregation after World War II, Nancy Leftenant-Colon, passed away at 104, VPM reported.
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 ...
After years of being barred from a segregated military, she became the first Black nurse ... into the Army Reserve. She was one of just 500 Black nurses to serve during World War II, out of ...
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who battled racial discrimination in a barrier-breaking career as a military nurse, serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring ...
Undeterred, she persisted and was accepted as a reservist into the Army Nurse Corps in January 1945, becoming a Second Lieutenant and serving in Fort Devens, Massachusetts, treating wounded soldiers ...
Leftenant-Colon later though joined the Army Nurse Corps in 1945 as a reservist, treating World War II wounded at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. A year later, she became the first Black woman to ...