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  2. Sharon Ann Lane - Wikipedia

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    Sharon Ann Lane (July 7, 1943 – June 8, 1969) was a United States Army nurse and the only American servicewoman killed as a direct result of enemy fire in the Vietnam War. The Army posthumously awarded Lane the Bronze Star Medal for heroism on June 8, 1969.

  3. Diane Carlson Evans - Wikipedia

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    Diane Carlson Evans (born 1946) is a former nurse in the United States Army during the Vietnam War and the founder of the Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation, which established the Vietnam Women's Memorial located at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

  4. Vietnam Women's Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The Vietnam Women's Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the nurses and women of the United States who served in the Vietnam War.It depicts three uniformed women with a wounded male soldier to symbolize the support and caregiving roles that women played in the war as nurses and other specialists.

  5. Kristin Hannah wanted to write about Vietnam for years. Why ...

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    She becomes one of Army’s women nurses, who have been largely forgotten from the narrative of the Vietnam War. More than 265,000 women served in the military during Vietnam, and 11,000 actually ...

  6. Carol Ann Drazba - Wikipedia

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    In February 1966, Drazba and another nurse, Elizabeth A. Jones, were among the seven American military personnel who died in a helicopter crash northeast of Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam, [4] [5] when the helicopter hit electrical lines and burned. [6] Drazba and Jones were the first two American women to die in the Vietnam War. [7] [8 ...

  7. Edith Shain, nurse in famous VJ Day kiss photo, dies - AOL

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    The woman most generally accepted to be the nurse kissed by a sailor after the surrender of Japan in WWII in the famous Alfred Eisenstaedt photo V-J day in Times Square has passed away. Edith ...

  8. Category:Vietnam War nurses - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Vietnam War nurses" ... Vietnam Nurses This page was last edited on 1 January 2024, at 22:45 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...

  9. List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Vietnam War

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    The Vietnam War, (also known as the Second Indochina War, Vietnam Conflict, and in Vietnam as the American War), took place from 1955 to 1975. The war was fought between the Communist-supported North Vietnam and the United States-supported South Vietnam , beginning with the presence of a small number of US military advisors in 1955 and ...