Harry Stewart Jr. Dies at 100; One of Last Tuskegee Airmen to See Combat
Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated former combat pilot who was among the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, the all-Black unit of the Army Air Forces in World War II, and who,…
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, 104, Dies; Army Nurse Broke a Color Barrier
Nancy Leftenant-Colon, a granddaughter of enslaved people who in 1948 became the first Black nurse to serve in the regular U.S. armed forces, died on Jan. 8 in Amityville, N.Y.,…