First Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation dies

First Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation dies

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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman desegregated it in 1948, has died at age 104.

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