Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Today, we salute WWII Veteran Loretta Ford. In 1941, Loretta officially became a nurse.

One of those 100-year-old pals is Bernadene H. Smith, a WWII Army nurse. "I was so impressed with Tyler the first time I met him. He is so kind, so thoughtful, so caring," she says. "He has ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - World War II nurse and pilar of the Bryan community, Hazel Von Roeder passed away this week at the age of 102. “A nurse in the army in World War II. She was in the reserves ...

Well done, Mrs. Leftenant-Colon! The first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps following its desegregation after World War II, Nancy Leftenant-Colon, passed away at 104, VPM reported.

she served during World War II as a nurse at Fort Dix," said Pennsylvania Rep. Mark Gillen. "Had a career in nursing as she got her bachelors and Masters Degree after she left the Army." ...

A pediatric nurse who worked tenaciously to expand access to health services, Loretta Ford helped to transform the way millions of Americans receive health care.

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who battled racial discrimination in a barrier-breaking career as a military nurse, serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps when it was desegregated after World War II and the sister of one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen pilots ...

Courtesy of the Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage. As a German plane buzzed overhead, nurse Helen Dore Boylston dropped face down in the mud. Boylston, an American nurse ...