A scrapbook can tell us much about a person\'s life or one period of someone\'s life: joys and sorrows, challenges and successes, problems and solutions.
It was time for their story to be told..
Through her research, she found out more about them.
Jordan saw that the Tuskegee Airmen were not the only ones making Black history during World War II; nurses also had to fight gender as well as racial discrimination.
Although Jordan may have seen this scrapbook when she was much younger, only when her mother became ill and had to be cared for in a nursing home, did Jordan, Louise\'s only child, take a closer look, as she began organizing belongings in the process of closing her mother\'s apartment.
Her mother, the former first lieutenant Louise Lomax, did not talk much about her ten years of Military nursing, but nonetheless, her Tuskegee Army Flying School scrapbook told a story.
Pia Marie Winters Jordan\'s mother was one of those angels of mercy.
They were Military officers, and the pilot cadets saluted them.
Army Nurse Corps.
These women were African Americans, graduates of nursing schools throughout the country, registered nurses, and lieutenants in the U.
S.
Memories of a Tuskegee Airmen Nurse and Her Military Sisters focuses on a four-year period from 1942 to 1946 during World War II when up to twenty-eight women from the Army Nurse Corps staffed the station hospital on the base where the future Tuskegee Airmen were undergoing basic and advanced pilot training.
A scrapbook can tell us much about a person\'s life or one period of someone\'s life: joys and sorrows, challenges and successes, problems and solutions
