Known as "Lefty," Nancy Leftenant-Colon was one of six siblings who served in the military, including a brother who was a famed Tuskegee Airmen pilot.

Roosevelt authorized the enlistment of Black aviators in the Army Air Corps ... daughter of a Tuskegee nurse and author of "Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse and Her Military Sisters," perhaps ...

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There, she worked as a medical nurse and cared for the airmen who were training to serve in the war. In a tweet from the Tuskegee Army Nurses, the group explained how Irma was "stationed at ...

Tuskegee Airman Lt. Frank H. Moody crashed on April 11, 1944. His was one of about 200 military aircraft lost the Great Lakes during World War II.

Why did Trump’s Air Force try to scrub videos and records of the excellent and celebrated Tuskegee Airmen and Navajo Code Talkers in World War II? Many pilots, sailors and troops were happy to get ...

He was the first Black jet fighter pilot in Korean airspace during the Korean War, and a decorated one after 126 missions.

O’Malley, 81, the first U.S. Marine Corps recipient of the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam war, was accompanied by his stepdaughter Shannon Dear. She lives in Euless; O’Malley lived in a nursing home in ...

101-year-old Col. James H. Harvey III, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, sits for a portrait in Aurora, Colorado, on March 12. (Thomas Peipert/AP) Col. James H. Harvey III, 101, is among the ...

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 ...