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flag Nancy Leftenant-Colon, first Black woman in U.S. Army Nurse Corps post-WWII, died at 104.

flag Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after WWII, passed away at 104. flag She graduated from the Lincoln School for Nurses and joined the Army Nurse Corps as a reservist in 1945. flag Leftenant-Colon assisted in the delivery and care of a premature baby and later became the first female president of Tuskegee Airmen Inc. flag Her brother was a Tuskegee Airmen pilot during the war.

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