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Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero, Mag: Vietnam Featured, Vietnam, Vietnam Magazine, Vietnam War
Nurses who served in Vietnam gave much and received little...
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Vietnam Magazine
Vietnam Nurses with Dana Delany DVD produced by Creative Street Productions, 2006, $21.95, vietnamnursesdvd.com Dana Delany is not a Vietnam nurse, but she played one on TV. This award- winning documentary hosted by the China Beach star is...
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American History Magazine
Maternity is the young woman’s battlefield,” wrote Mary Breckinridge in 1927. “It is more dangerous, more painful, more mutilating than war, and as inexorable as all the laws of God.” Breckinridge’s theater of operations was...
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Information and Articles About Civil War Nurses, one of the many roles filled by women of the civil war Civil War Nurses summary: Thousands of women served as volunteer nurses during the Civil War. There is very little written record of...
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America's Civil War
A cadre of dedicated Northern women from all walks of life traveled to the charnel houses of the Civil War to care for the sick and wounded....
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American History Reviews, Reviews
ALL THIS HELL: U.S. NURSES IMPRISONED BY THE JAPANESE, by Evelyn M. Monahan & Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee, The University Press of Kentucky, 264 pages, $22.50. THE sweeping success of the Japanese in the western Pacific following Pearl...
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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories
Judy the English Pointer received Britain’s Dickin Medal for animals after gaining renown as one of the war's most heroic sidekicks....
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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero
Frederick, Md., became the scene of epic changes in military medicine during the Civil War...
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HistoryNet
The Vietnam War is the commonly used name for the Second Indochina War, 1954–1975. Usually it refers to the period when the United States and other members of the SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) joined the forces with the...
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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Mag: Vietnam Featured, Vietnam, Vietnam Magazine, Vietnam War
A U.S. Navy nurse who survived the Brinks Hotel bombing in 1964 shares her story of suffering, resilience and an unprecedented Purple Heart ...
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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero
The famed battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, had about 536,553 visitors last year, a 92 percent decrease from its peak draw in 1970...
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Homepage Featured Top Stories, Mag: Military History Featured, Military History, Military History Magazine
Americans trapped within Paris during the 1870–71 Franco-Prussian War witnessed chaos and compassion, revolt and an eventual return to republican ideals...
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Military History
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi relates the WWII ordeal of U.S. Navy Nurse Dorothy Still and 11 fellow nurses in the occupied Philippines...
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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero
In 1962 Vietti became America's first female prisoner of war in Vietnam ...
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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories
Hundreds of American fliers ended up stranded in Siberia—creating a conundrum for the Soviets, who were not at war with nearby Japan....
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American History
Wilson's war was almost over and women's suffrage was near, but there was a pandemic and the country was polarized over Prohibition
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