Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, has passed away at the age of 104.

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.

The historic, all-Black unit included more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks from throughout the nation, including Louisiana.

Over the weekend, the Air Force responded to a political uproar over the removal of instructional videos on World War II-era African American and female pilots by declaring that the two films had been restored to the service's basic training curriculum.

The U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black Tuskegee Airmen and Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — female World War II pilots.

The Tuskegee Airmen were founded in 1941 in Tuskegee, Alabama when the U.S. Army Air Corps began a program to train Black servicemembers as Air Corps Cadets.

The Air Force said it would no longer teach about the Tuskegee Airmen or WASPs after Trump issued an executive order barring diversity programs.

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.

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 ...

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 during World War II. In 1989, she would become the first ...

The Airmen consisted of 15,000 men and women in total, of which approximately 1,000 were pilots. Serving in combat for the U.S. Army ... Tuskegee Airmen, no Black American had been a United States ...

Material related to the Tuskegee ... the United States during the war years" from 126 bases across the country, according to the Air Force Historical Support Division. Tuskegee Airmen Inc ...