Diane Carlson Evans, who served in the Army Nurse Corps in Vietnam, ... Now focused on being a wife, a mother and a military nurse, Carlson Evans suppressed her memories of Vietnam.

The first military women to arrive in Vietnam were nurses, in 1956. As the American presence in Southeast Asia grew, so too did the number of young women who served. In all, nearly 8,000 military ...

For these Vietnam nurses, they said they’d do it again in a heartbeat and recommend service to the next generation of nurses. “It was an honor to serve in the Army Nurse Corps. I would do it ...

NATICK — When A. Sharon Deehan enlisted in the Army in 1967 to help pay for her last year of college, she had no idea of the impact it would have on her life.. A little more than a year later ...

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 ...

The Only Nurse Killed in the Vietnam War Died Trying to Rescue Orphans Capt. Mary Klinker was 27 years old when she died April 4, 1975, when the first aircraft supporting Operation Babylift crashed.

But in Vietnam, doctors and nurses didn’t have time to quibble over their roles. “Everyone pitched in and I really learned a lot,” said Tropp, 64, who was the head nurse in a dialysis unit ...

A Navy nurse in East Tennessee said the impact of caring for wounded veterans in Vietnam "stays with you for the rest of your ... Tenn. — Few people grasp the cost of war. But, military nurses do.

The other military nurse to be featured on the Nurses Monument is 1st Lt. Sharon Lane, the only American nurse killed in Vietnam by enemy fire. She was on duty June 8, 1969, ...