About 7,000 U.S. women served overseas as nurses during the Vietnam War. ... In January 1968, the hospital was in the path of the Tet Offensive, a major military campaign by Vietnamese forces.

Approximately 6,000 U.S. nurses served in Vietnam, ... Reading those words, Meehan realized her service — and that of thousands of other military nurses — would not be forgotten.

The Wall That Heals contains the names of 58,281 military personnel who were killed in action during the Vietnam War or listed as missing. Of those killed in action, eight were nurses — seven ...

Sally Merten’s experience during the Vietnam War was worlds apart from the antiwar movement. As a registered nurse in the U.S. Air Force, she cared for wounded soldiers in California and ...

Carlson Evans and her fellow nurses worked six days a week, 12 or more hours a day, sometimes on duty 24-36 hours straight. After 351 days serving in Vietnam, Carlson Evans came home with pride in ...

Auclair, who served as an army nurse during the Vietnam War, is currently much in demand by local book groups whose members have read and enjoyed Kristan Hannah’s best-seller, “The Women.” ...

As part of our StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative, we hear from Army Major Carol Kirk. She deployed to Vietnam as an Army nurse in 1969 and remembers some of the men she cared for.

Diane Carlson Evans, Vietnam War nurse and trailblazing advocate, received two awards Thursday at the Montana Military Museum celebrating her decades of service and fight for women veterans ...

Arlene Mary Frank Edwards, 77, a combat nurse during the Vietnam War, prepares for a flight in a Boeing Stearman biplane in McMinnville, Oregon on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024.

Eight women whose names are on the Vietnam Memorial Wall at the Woodring Wall of Honor and Veterans Park will be honored at a special ceremony on March 29, 2025, ...