Articles Related to Vietnam War nurses

Chapter 862 Honors Vietnam Nurses

February 28, 2020

Vietnam Veterans of America Southwestern Pennsylvania Chapter 862 honored nurses who served in Vietnam at its 21st annual Tet Reunion Party on Feb. 15. About 11,000 American military women were stationed in Vietnam during the war, and about…

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Author Query: Vietnam War Nurses

December 6, 2016

Michael Burns, a Vietnam War veteran, would like to hear from nurses who served in the Vietnam War for a book he is writing. If you would like to help, or for more information, write…

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Wartorn Heart by Kathleen Trew Swazuk

March 22, 2015

Kathleen Trew Swazuk was an Army nurse at the 93rd  EVAC Hospital in Long Binh during her 1969-70 tour of duty in the Vietnam War. Her "scars have taken years to heal, " she writes in Wartorn…

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Sisterhood of War by Kim Heikkila

February 23, 2012

Kim Heikkila's Sisterhood of War: Minnesota Women in Vietnam (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 232 pp., $19.95, paper) looks at fifteen women from the Land of 10, 000 Lakes who served as nurses in the Vietnam…

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