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Photo of Barbara Robbins in South Vietnam, enjoys a day with friend Bill McDonald on a rented fishing boat off the coast of Nha Trang in fall 1964.

This Young Woman Was the First CIA Agent Killed in Vietnam

by Cathryn J. Prince12/13/202212/13/2022

Inspired by JFK, Barbara Robbins went to Vietnam to do her part to fight communism. At age 21, she became the youngest-ever CIA employee killed on duty.

A nurse helps prepare a patient for an operation at the 7th Surgical Hospital, a mobile army surgical hospital (MASH), at Blackhorse base camp near Saigon in 1968. Nurses were among the earliest U.S. service members to arrive in Vietnam.

Nurses in Vietnam: Putting Themselves in Danger to Keep Men Alive

by Tom Edwards9/20/20222/27/2023