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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, first Black woman in U.S. Army Nurse Corps post-WWII, died at 104.
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after WWII, passed away at 104.
She graduated from the Lincoln School for Nurses and joined the Army Nurse Corps as a reservist in 1945.
Leftenant-Colon assisted in the delivery and care of a premature baby and later became the first female president of Tuskegee Airmen Inc.
Her brother was a Tuskegee Airmen pilot during the war.
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, primera mujer negra en el Cuerpo de Enfermeras del Ejército de Estados Unidos después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, murió a los 104 años.