Donna Barbisch, a former Vietnam nurse and retired Army officer, remembered talking to a woman who didn't know any American women had been overseas. "She was expressing negative sentiment about ...

More than 40 Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) nurses served in Vietnam until Australia's withdrawal from the conflict in 1971. The first group — Lieutenants Colleen Mealy, Margaret ...

As one of the so-called ‘Fab Four’ first Australian female army nurses sent to the Vietnam War, she was there to do a challenging job, starting immediately. “We didn’t realise what we were ...

Gen. Anna Mae Hays, the chief of the Army Nurse Corps who became the U.S. military's first female general officer. Vietnam veteran Eileen Moore, now a justice with California Courts of Appeal ...

"I was 23 when I went to Vietnam, and I was just about 24 when I came home," Rowe says. Many of the nurses were fresh out of nursing school, Rowe says. Recruited by the Army Nurse Corps when she ...

Credit: Jim Noelker Credit: Jim Noelker 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 ...

The family of an Australian Army nurse who served in Vietnam say her memory has been dishonoured after bungles by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs following her death. Lieutenant Margaret ...

On April 29–30, 1975, the USS Midway played a crucial role in the largest military humanitarian ... Navy Commander Casey Meehan served as a nurse in Vietnam, treating thousands while facing ...

"The Women" by Kristin Hannah follows the journey of a young woman who signs up to be an Army nurse in Vietnam in the mid 1960s. The book details the job of caring for soldiers wounded in combat ...