Roosevelt authorized the enlistment of Black aviators in the Army Air Corps. From 1941 until 1946 ... As the U.S. war machine churned to life during World War II, the need for manpower began ...

Leftenant-Colon later though joined the Army Nurse Corps in 1945 as a reservist, treating World War II wounded at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. A year later, she became the first Black woman to ...

The first Black woman to join the US Army Nurse Corps after the military was ... an organization honoring the famed group of Black World War II pilots. In 2007, Leftenant-Colon joined fellow ...