There, she worked as a medical nurse and cared for the airmen who were training to serve in the war. In a tweet from the Tuskegee Army Nurses, the group explained how Irma was "stationed at ...

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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 ...

When Michele Whaley donated two cameras that belonged to her great uncle, Wisconsin's only Tuskegee Airman, to the Waukesha ...

101-year-old Col. James H. Harvey III, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, sits for a portrait in Aurora, Colorado, on March 12. (Thomas Peipert/AP) Col. James H. Harvey III, 101, is among the ...

Tuskegee Airman Lt. Frank H. Moody crashed on April 11, 1944. His was one of about 200 military aircraft lost the Great Lakes during World War II.

Known as "Lefty," Nancy Leftenant-Colon was one of six siblings who served in the military, including a brother who was a famed Tuskegee Airmen pilot.