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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.
Vietnam Nurses is a 2005 television documentary directed by Polly Watkins. It tells the story of six Australian Army nurses who served in a field hospital in Vietnam between the years 1962 and 1972.
The episode is intercut with interviews of real-life Vietnam veterans (many featured in the season 2 episode “Vets”), who discuss topics related to Dodger’s exit from Vietnam such as the bureaucracy underpinning the war, the camaraderie between soldiers, treating maimed and orphaned children, and the transition from Vietnam to civilian ...
The court-martial of Susan Schnall, a lieutenant (junior grade) U.S. Navy nurse stationed at the Oakland Naval Hospital in Oakland, California, took place in early 1969 during the Vietnam War. [1] Her political activities, which led to the military trial, may have garnered some of the most provocative news coverage during the early days of the ...
In “ Vietnam: The War That Changed America,” a six-part docuseries debuting Friday on Apple TV+, Broyles recounts how he was so scared in his first firefight that he lost his voice and had to ...
For Kristin Hannah, writing a story about nurses who served during the Vietnam War is personal. (Kevin Lynch) "These gals went over raised on patriotic stories of WWII and of their father's service.
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 ...
More than 265,000 women served in the military during Vietnam, and 11,000 actually served in Vietnam, per the VA. Of those 11,000 women, 90% were nurses like Frankie. Of those 11,000 women, 90% ...