Vietnam War Nurses
Vietnam War Nurses

Author: Patricia Rushton

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1476602085

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Eighteen nurses who served in the United States military nurse corps during the Vietnam War present their personal accounts in this book. They represent all military branches and both genders. They served in the theater of combat, in the United States, and in countries allied with the U.S. They served in front line hospitals, hospital ships, large medical centers and small clinics. They speak of caring for casualties during a conflict filled with controversy--and of patriotism, of the nursing profession, of travel and the adventure of friendship and love.

Women at War
Women at War

Author: Elizabeth Norman

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2010-08-03

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 081220297X

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Norman tells the dramatic story of fifty women—members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps—who went to war, working in military hospitals, aboard ships, and with air evacuation squadrons during the Vietnam War. Here, in a moving narrative, the women talk about why they went to war, the experiences they had while they were there, and how war affected them physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Officer, Nurse, Woman
Officer, Nurse, Woman

Author: Kara Dixon Vuic

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0801893917

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Drawing on more than 100 interviews, Vuic allows the nurses to tell their own captivating stories, from their reasons for joining the military to the physical and emotional demands of a horrific war and postwar debates about how to commemorate their service. Vuic also explores the gender issues that arose when a male-dominated army actively recruited and employed the services of 5,000 women nurses in the midst of a growing feminist movement and a changing nursing profession. Women drawn to the army's patriotic promise faced disturbing realities in the virtually all-male hospitals of South Vietnam. Men who joined the nurse corps ran headlong into the army's belief that women should nurse and men should fight.

Nurses in Vietnam
Nurses in Vietnam

Author: Dan Freedman

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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This is the compelling story of nine Army nurses who served in Vietnam between 1965-1971. Their diverse and individual accounts vividly express the frustrations and challenges of their experiences.

Healing Wounds
Healing Wounds

Author: Diane Carlson Evans

Publisher: Permuted Press

Published: 2020-05-26

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1682619133

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In 1983, when Evans came up with the vision for the first-ever memorial on the National Mall to honor women who’d worn a military uniform, she wouldn’t be deterred. She remembered not only her sister veterans, but also the hundreds of young wounded men she had cared for, as she expressed during a Congressional hearing in Washington, D.C.: “Women didn’t have to enter military service, but we stepped up to serve believing we belonged with our brothers-in-arms and now we belong with them at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. If they belong there, we belong there. We were there for them then. We mattered.” In the end, those wounded soldiers who had survived proved to be there for their sisters-in-arms, joining their fight for honor in Evans’ journey of combating unforeseen bureaucratic obstacles and facing mean-spirited opposition. Her impassioned story of serving in Vietnam is a crucial backstory to her fight to honor the women she served beside. She details the gritty and high-intensity experience of being a nurse in the midst of combat and becomes an unlikely hero who ultimately serves her country again as a formidable force in her daunting quest for honor and justice.

A Piece of My Heart
A Piece of My Heart

Author: Keith Walker

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 089141617X

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Records the memories of a war in the words of those women courageous enough to walk into hell. --San Francisco Chronicle

Sisterhood of War
Sisterhood of War

Author: Kim Heikkila

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780873516372

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Fifteen Minnesota nurses spent a year caring for the casualties of a divisive war, only to come home and descend into isolated silence. To heal themselves, they banded together as veterans.

Our Vietnam Nurses
Our Vietnam Nurses

Author: Annabelle Brayley

Publisher: Penguin Group Australia

Published: 2016-05-02

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1760141607

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From the bestselling author of Bush Nurses and Nurses of the Outback comes this collection of compelling and moving stories of our heroic nurses in the Vietnam War Being a nurse always requires a cool head, a steady hand and an open heart. But if you're working in a war zone, the challenges are much harder. When Australia joined the Vietnam War, civilian and military nurses were there to save lives and comfort the wounded. With spirit and good humour, they worked hard and held strong, even though most of them were completely unprepared for the war before they landed in the middle of it. Working incredibly long hours and surrounded by chaos and turmoil, these brave nurses and medics were integral to our war effort. These fifteen stories show a side to the Vietnam War that has received little recognition but played an important part in shaping Australia's presence in the war. From flying with critically wounded Australian soldiers out of turbulent war zones, to being held at gunpoint, the compassion, courage and grace under fire in Our Vietnam Nurses will inspire and astound.

Round Eyes: an American Nurse in Vietnam
Round Eyes: an American Nurse in Vietnam

Author: Diane Klutz

Publisher: Bookbaby

Published: 2018-11-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781543951370

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The year was 1969 -- Woodstock, free love, peace marches and war. Life was unpredictable at best, but that didn't stop twenty-year-old Diane Mumper from going after her dream of adventure. Soon to graduate from nursing school, she joined the Army Nurse Corps, and six months later she began her journey. Often comical and frequently cynical, Diane's stories describe her experiences from basic training through duty in one of the most deadly war zones in South Vietnam. Along the way, she faces a truth about herself and the war far different than she ever expected.

A Time Remembered
A Time Remembered

Author: Olga Gruhzit-Hoyt

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Why did American women go to Vietnam? What were their lives like in the war zone, and after they came home?" A Time Remembered" provides answers to these questions and more, and pays tribute to these patriots. Photos.