American airmen trekked to a hilltop to remember fallen bomber crews and Japanese citizens killed in a World War II air raid ...

1st Class in the United States Army who ... and commanded the famous Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. Davis Jr. is the son of Benjamin Davis, Sr., the first Black Army General, and had fought ...

Kane attended the Tuskegee Airman Commemoration Ceremony at Lowell City Hall ... became the first American nurse in the regular United States Army Nurse Corps in March of 1943 after it was ...

the U.S. Army Air Corps created a program to train black pilots, bombardiers, navigators and aircraft maintenance and ground crews at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The Tuskegee Airmen became an ...

Among those listed under “Hispanic American History” are Captain Maria Ines Ortiz, who served in served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and was the first Army nurse killed in combat since the ...

Maria Ines Ortiz, who served in the Iraq War and was the first Army nurse killed in combat since ... War page contains information about the United States Colored Troops, Black American regiments ...

Coleman returned to the United States aboard the ... “DODO” Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen. (Ernie Cox Jr./Chicago Tribune) First Black unit of the U.S. Army Air Corps The U.S. Army put ...

SALLY J LING, HISTORIAN AND AUTHOR OF SMALL TOWN BIG SECRETS, SAID THE UNITED STATES ... ARMY, MARK MARVELS THAT HE GETS TO LEARN ON THE VERY SAME GROUNDS WHERE SOME OF THE FORMER TUSKEGEE AIRMEN ...

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 ...

Mrs. Leftenant-Colon joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in February 1948 ... part of the famed Tuskegee Airmen. She repeatedly faced hostile supervisors, who made it clear that she would be ...

In 1945, she was accepted into the Army Nurse Corps as a reservist with the rank of second lieutenant ... She was the sister of one of the famous Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black airmen who fought ...

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. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...