Colon, the first African American commissioned into the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after it was desegregated in the 1940s, died ...

Categories considered during these promotion boards were: Air Force Reserve Line, Dental Corps, Medical Corps, Nurse Corps, Medical Services Corps, Biomedical Sciences Corps, Chaplains and Line of ...

Starting as an air stewardess, where one had to be a registered nurse at the time, Kinkela then joined the air force and started evacuating soldiers off the battle field. During the Korean War ...

Leftenant-Colon became a flight nurse with the U.S. Air Force. After retiring from the military in 1965 with the rank of ...