A chance discovery reveals an 80 year old story of battlefield sacrifice, adding new chapters to the history of two families.
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Nurses Sworn into Army for WWII in New York
This video in New York City Hall highlights the swearing-in of nurses going into the U.S. Army. Over one thousand nurses join ...
ANDERSON, Ind. — The recent film “The Six Triple Eight” follows a group of African American women in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, a unit charged with routing mail to ...
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, has died at the age of 104. She passed away earlier this month at a ...
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 ...
She was 104. Her great-niece Gilda Leftenant confirmed the death, in a nursing facility. Mrs. Leftenant-Colon joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in February 1948, several months before President ...
Four U.S. Army units, including the 2nd Mobile Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division and a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Battalion will deploy overseas this spring.
She retired as a chief nurse in 1965, according to the Tuskegee Airmen Inc. website. From there, she served as a school nurse at Amityville Memorial High School in New York from 1971 to 1984 ...
In 1945, she was accepted into the Army Nurse Corps as a reservist with the rank of second lieutenant. She rose to the rank of first lieutenant in just 11 months. In 1946, she was assigned to the ...
LC State also works with the Air Force’s Nurse Enlisted Commissioning Program and the Navy’s Medical Enlisted Commissioning Program, giving those enlisted personnel the same opportunities as the ...
Lewis-Clark State College is one of 11 schools nationwide recognized by the Army Enlisted Commissioning Program for its nursing program, the Lewiston school announced this week. The AECP program ...