Biographies

Alice P. Binford

Second Lieutenant Alice P. Binford was a dispensary nurse on the base.

Elsie H. Wallace

2LT Lieutenant Elsie H. Wallace was another of the nurses in the 1942 yearbook. She was a medical nurse and a ward three head nurse. She was from Augusta, Georgia. She retired from the military on March 31, 1945. (Information from station hospital rosters, The August 15, 1942 Pittsburgh Courier, The November 26, 1939 The […]

Mencie B. Trotter

Second Lieutenant Mencie B. Trotter was one of the three Tuskegee Army Nurses who graduated from St. Philip School of Nursing in Richmond, Virginia in the class of 1940.

Sarah F. Thomas

T Thomas was among the first of three Tuskegee Army “Negro nurses to carry services to foreign soil to Liberia” on April 4, 1943

Ruth Speight

She and the others were assigned to the station hospital at Tuskegee Army Air Field (Alabama), the advanced training ground for the original Tuskegee Airmen.

Fatima D. Smith

2LT Fatima Smith was one of the three nurses who were transferred to Liberia for service.

Norma L. Greene

Second Lieutenant Norma L. Greene was one of the earlier nurses on Tuskegee’s Army Base.

Octavia M. Bridgwater

Octavia M. Bridgewater was one of Montana’s native daughters. One of the Tuskegee Army Nurses mentioned her as one of the older nurses.

Abbie E. Voorhies

This second lieutenant was transferred from Camp Livingston in Louisiana where she was chosen to escort four other nurses to Tuskegee Army Air Field (TAAF).

Naomi Bernice Bell

Second Lieutenant Naomi Bell entered the miliitary on December 28 1942. By 1946, she had been promoted to First Lieutenant.