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Capt. Della H. Raney, Army Nurse Corps, who now heads the nursing staff at the station hospital at Camp Beale, CA - NARA. She became the first African American accepted into the Army Nurse Corps.

Army nurse Hazel W. Johnson became first African American woman brigadier (one-star) general and first African American Chief of the Army Nurse Corps.

Navy nurse Joan Bynum became the first African American woman promoted to captain.

Lillian Smith (right) congratulating Mrs. Mabel Keaton Staupers (left), winner of the 36th Springarn medal for outstanding work in the integration of African American nurses into the American nursing profession, in Atlanta.

Lt. Florie E. Gant...tends a patient at a prisoner-of war hospital somewhere in England.

Auxiliaries Ruth Wade and Lucille Mayo (left to right) further demonstrate their ability to service trucks as taught them during the processing period at Fort Des Moines and put into practice at Fort Huachuca, Arizona.

Major Margaret E. Bailey became the first African American nurse promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Army Nurse Corps.

Kelly with fellow command sergeants major during her promotion to Women's Army Corps command sergeant major.

Photo of Marcella Hayes, originally printed in Ebony Magazine in 1980.

Lieutenant General Nadja West became the first African American appointed Army Surgeon General and the first African American woman to attain three-star general officer rank.