Inventory of the "Memory of South Viet-nam" photograph album SPC.2023.029
California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections
2023-11
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California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections
Title: "Memory of South Viet-nam" photograph album
Identifier/Call Number: SPC.2023.029
Physical Description:
1 box
(one photograph album)
Physical Description:
.21 Linear Feet
Date: 1970
Language of Material:
English
.
Container: 1
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This collection contains one photograph album titled "Memory of South Viet-nam" with 111 color and black-and-white photographs
presumably taken in South Vietnam circa 1970. Images were taken at a bar or restaurant; possibly taken at a United States
military base camp; and inside of an Army office. Images depict members of the Army and Army Nurses Corps in their uniforms,
playing baseball, at social gatherings, and in an office setting. A majority of the photographs contain no information and
are undated except for two that are inscribed with "Linda M. Brackett 1-R", "Linda M. Brackett 2-R", and are dated "April
1970" and "1970".
During the Vietnam War, a majority of women serving in the war were nurses. Many of them had very little experience, and were
recruited out of nursing school. Nurses worked twelve hour shifts, six days a week, and cared for the wounded, and those sick
with tropical diseases. It is reported that anywhere from 7,000-11, 000 women served as nurses starting as early as 1956
when they were recruited to train Vietnamese women in nursing skills.
For more information about Vietnam Era nurses please consult:
https://news.va.gov/86001/women-veterans-bravely-served-vietnam-war/
https://www.workingnurse.com/articles/in-country-u-s-nurses-during-the-vietnam-war/
https://teeitupforthetroops.org/blog/2023/08/21/the-nurses-who-served-in-the-vietnam-war/
https://exhibitions.lib.udel.edu/nurses-in-wartime/nurses-in-wartime/the-nurses-of-the-vietnam-conflict/
https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/exhibits/nurses/
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Nursing
United States Army