Our Vietnam Nurses

Author : Annabelle Brayley
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781760141608

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Our Vietnam Nurses by Annabelle Brayley Pdf

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.

Author : Patricia Rushton
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476602080

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Vietnam War Nurses by Patricia Rushton Pdf

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.

Author : Elizabeth Norman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780812202977

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Women at War by Elizabeth Norman Pdf

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.

Author : Lynda Van Devanter
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1558492984

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Home Before Morning by Lynda Van Devanter Pdf

A searing first person account of the Vietnam War, as seen through the eyes of an Army nurse.

Author : Diane Carlson Evans,Bob Welch,Joseph Galloway
Publisher : Permuted Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781682619131

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Healing Wounds by Diane Carlson Evans,Bob Welch,Joseph Galloway Pdf

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.

Author : Kara Dixon Vuic
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801893919

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Officer, Nurse, Woman by Kara Dixon Vuic Pdf

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.

Author : Barbara Kautz
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 171806800X

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When I Die I'm Going to Heaven 'cause I've Spent My Time in Hell by Barbara Kautz Pdf

When she was 18, she joined the Army to finance her nursing education. With less than six months of nursing experience, she was assigned to the 24th Evacuation Hospital in South Vietnam. True tales of the war that are by turns horrifying and humorous, told with an eye for detail, by a woman who was in the thick of it.

Author : Janet D. Tanner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030696177

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Army Nurse Corps Voices from the Vietnam War by Janet D. Tanner Pdf

This book provides an oral history of women who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. It follows the trajectory of eight women’s lives from their decision to become nurses, to surgical and evacuation hospitals in Vietnam, and then home to face the consequences of war on their personal and professional lives. It documents their lived experience in Vietnam and explores the memories and personal stories of nurses who treated injured American soldiers, Vietnamese civilians, and the enemy. Their voices reveal the physical and emotional challenges, trauma, contradictions, and lingering effects of war on their lives. Women in the U.S. Army in Vietnam feared the enemy but also sexual violence and harassment: the experiences this book documents also shed light on the extent of historical sexual abuse in the military.

Author : Donna A. Lowery
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504913980

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Women Vietnam Veterans by Donna A. Lowery Pdf

Women Vietnam Veterans: Our Untold Stories, by Donna Lowery, a Vietnam veteran, chronicles the participation of American military women during the Vietnam War. This little-known group of an estimated 1,000 women from the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force left its mark in Vietnam from 1962 to 1973. They served in a myriad of duties from intelligence analysts, flight controllers, clerk-typists, translators, physical therapists, dietitians and communications specialists among many others. Our Untold Stories allows the women to speak for themselves about their experiences, and, for the first time ever, brings names, facts and figures together in one literary work. The purpose of the book is to be historically significant to future researchers. The history of the military women in Vietnam began in 1962 with Army Major Anne Marie Doering. She was born in what became North Vietnam. Her father was a French officer, her mother a German citizen. When her father died, her mother married an American businessman. Her service in Vietnam as a Combat Intelligence Officer is a compelling story of the US military women in a war zone. It was not until 1965 that the US Women’s Army Corps (WAC) sent two women as advisors to assist the newly formed Vietnam Women’s Armed Forces Corps. The following year, the Army authorized the establishment of a WAC Detachment in Vietnam. Soon, thereafter, the Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy also sent women to serve in various capacities. In March 1973, under the Paris Peace Accords, the last women left Vietnam along with the remaining men. The impact they had in Vietnam set the stage for the expansion and integration of women into additional roles in the military. Today, women serve in areas of active combat, demonstrating their abilities and dedication to the mission.

Author : Lou Eisenbrandt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1941165680

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Vietnam Nurse by Lou Eisenbrandt Pdf

Author : Diane Klutz
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1543951376

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Round Eyes: an American Nurse in Vietnam by Diane Klutz Pdf

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.

Author : Tania Blanchard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925596175

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Suitcase of Dreams by Tania Blanchard Pdf

From the bestselling author of The Girl from Munich, a sweeping, dramatic tale of love and identity, inspired by a true story. After enduring the horror of Nazi Germany and the chaos of postwar occupation, Lotte Drescher and her family arrive in Australia in 1956 full of hope for a new life. It’s a land of opportunity, where Lotte and her husband Erich dream of giving their children the future they have always wanted. After years of struggling to find their feet as New Australians, Erich turns his skill as a wood carver into a successful business and Lotte makes a career out of her lifelong passion, photography. The sacrifices they have made finally seem worth it until Erich’s role in the trade union movement threatens to have him branded a communist and endanger their family. Then darker shadows of the past reach out to them from Germany, a world and a lifetime away. As the Vietnam War looms, an unexpected visitor forces Lotte to a turning point. Her decision will change her life forever . . . and will finally show her the true meaning of home. PRAISE FOR TANIA BLANCHARD ‘Captures the intensity of a brutal and unforgiving war, successfully weaving love, loss, desperation and, finally, hope into a gripping journey of self-discovery.’ Courier Mail ‘An epic tale, grand in scope … Packs an emotional punch that will reverberate far and wide.’ Weekly Times ‘A tumultuous journey from order to bedlam, and from naive acceptance of the status quo to the gradual getting of political wisdom.’ Sunday Age ‘An original and innovative take on the World War II genre that captures the hauntingly desperate essence of the war. Tania Blanchard has written yet another spectacular novel. Don’t miss this.’ Better Reading ‘A sweeping, dramatic tale of love and identity.’ Fraser Coast Chronicle

Author : Keith Walker
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307542359

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A Piece of My Heart by Keith Walker Pdf

“Records the memories of a war in the words of those women courageous enough to walk into hell.”—San Francisco Chronicle A decade after America pulled out of Vietnam, the seeds of the often heart- wrenching oral history, A Piece of My Heart, were sown when writer and filmmaker Keith Walker met a woman who had been an emergency room nurse in Cu Chi and Da Nang. She and 25 others recount the time they spent "in country" as part of 15,000 American women who volunteered or served as nurses and in the military. NOTE: This edition does not include photographs. “The emotional current never falters.”—The New York Times Book Review

Author : Narelle Biedermann
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742746760

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Tears On My Pillow by Narelle Biedermann Pdf

"Don't forget your cotton underwear, girls!" Most books that look at the involvement of Australians in the Vietnam War rarely allude to the role of nurses. But war and nursing are unequivocally linked. A total of 43 Australian Army nursing sisters were sent to Vietnam between April 1967 and November 1971, undertaking tours of up to 12 months. The nurses were assigned to a military hospital in a war zone with little advanced preparation, particularly as clinicians with exposure to trauma, critical care or theatre. The contribution of these women undoubtedly affected many soldiers in profound ways. Tears on My Pillow describes the experiences of nursing in the Vietnam War using the words, voices and photographs of these servicewomen. These veterans tell tales of femininity interspersed with the reality of the military environment through their stories of trauma, distress, tears and grief that went on for many years, and stories of underwear, fun and the basic things in life.

Author : Dan Freedman,Jacqueline Rhoads
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015049738464

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Nurses in Vietnam by Dan Freedman,Jacqueline Rhoads Pdf

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.