American Daughter Gone to War
Title | American Daughter Gone to War PDF eBook |
Author | Winnie Smith |
Publisher | William Morrow |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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The story of an American nurse in the Vietnam war zone.
American Daughter Gone to War: On the Front Lines with an Army Nurs
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ISBN | 9780780741850 |
Vietnam War Nurses
Title | Vietnam War Nurses PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Rushton |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 195 |
Release | 2013-04-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1476602085 |
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.
And If I Perish
Title | And If I Perish PDF eBook |
Author | Evelyn Monahan |
Publisher | Anchor |
Total Pages | 530 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307424782 |
In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as U.S. Army nurses. When the war began, some of them had so little idea of what to expect that they packed party dresses; but the reality of service quickly caught up with them, whether they waded through the water in the historic landings on North African and Normandy beaches, or worked around the clock in hospital tents on the Italian front as bombs fell all around them. For more than half a century these women’s experiences remained untold, almost without reference in books, historical societies, or military archives. After years of reasearch and hundreds of hours of interviews, Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have created a dramatic narrative that at last brings to light the critical role that women played throughout the war. From the North African and Italian Campaigns to the Liberation of France and the Conquest of Germany, U.S. Army nurses rose to the demands of war on the frontlines with grit, humor, and great heroism. A long overdue work of history, And If I Perish is also a powerful tribute to these women and their inspiring legacy.
The Girls Next Door
Title | The Girls Next Door PDF eBook |
Author | Kara Dixon Vuic |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 393 |
Release | 2019-02-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674986385 |
To boost soldiers’ morale and remind them of the stakes of victory, the American military formalized a recreation program that sent respectable young women, along with famous entertainers, overseas. This history of the women who talked and listened, danced and sang, adds an intimate chapter to the story of war and its ties to life in peacetime.
Women at War
Title | Women at War PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Norman |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 238 |
Release | 2010-08-03 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 081220297X |
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
Title | Officer, Nurse, Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Kara Dixon Vuic |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Total Pages | 302 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0801893917 |
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.