Vietnam War Nurses at the Ready
Seventeen Personal Accounts
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About the Book
This second volume of accounts by nurses who served with U.S. forces in Vietnam presents recollections of 17 women who cared for American casualties. They faced overwhelming trauma, conflicting emotions and isolation while caring for wounded at frontline hospitals, aboard ships and in medical centers. Representing the army and navy, their experiences of struggle, friendship and love formed their professional and personal lives.
About the Author(s)
Bibliographic Details
Edited by Patricia Rushton
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 248
Bibliographic Info: 18 photos, index
Copyright Date: 2023
pISBN: 978-1-4766-9097-1
eISBN: 978-1-4766-4882-8
Imprint: McFarland
Table of Contents
Preface 1
Phyllis Barkus 3
Virginia R. Beeson 11
Carol Keith Brautigam 34
Gloria and John (Jack) Caffrey 46
Elaine J. Dlouhy 68
Ellen Komarek Duvall 79
Anne Kuhn Gartner 93
Susan Searle Jackson 113
Irma Klaetke 127
Helen Bergin Kranz 139
Susan Stuart Miller 148
Patricia J. O’Hare 156
Nancy J. Owen 161
Janet Page Price 187
Elizabeth Roach 198
Stella Ann Ross 205
Index 237
Book Reviews & Awards
“People who read Vietnam War Nurses at the Ready: Seventeen Personal Accounts are in for a real eye-opener…collectively, the nurses’ spellbinding memories resemble a plot line for a sprawling novel…their stories about these adventures are equally as entertaining and enlightening as what they say about the Vietnam War.”—VVA Veteran