Ziegler, a flight nurse assigned to 18th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, walked down the aisle and found flight attendants helping a man in distress, an Air Force news release says.

commissioned and integrated into the regular Army Air Corps, her family said. She treated wounded soldiers in World War II and served as an elite flight nurse during both the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was ... Vietnam and was on the the first medical evacuation flight into Dien Bien Phu, where more than 70 years ago ...