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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, Trailblazing Army Nurse and Air Force Veteran, Dies at 104

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation, has died at 104. A trailblazer in military medicine, she served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, later becoming the first female president of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc.

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