Bestselling US author Kristin Hannah honours Vietnam War nurses in new novel, The Women

On May 21, 1968, nurse Jan McCarthy arrived in South Vietnam to take up a post at the 1st Australian Field Hospital at Vũng Tàu.

It was her 28th birthday, and McCarthy would spend the next 12 months in the region, working around the clock treating patients injured on the frontline of the Vietnam War.

McCarthy oversaw the theatre technicians and later worked in the ICU, dealing with a raft of traumatic injuries, including amputations and other wounds caused by gunshots, shrapnel and bomb blasts.

“If the battalions were out in the jungles, we were constantly on the go because you never quite knew what was going to happen,” she says.

CLICK LINK to read the article:

Bestselling US author Kristin Hannah honours Vietnam War nurses in new novel, The Women – ABC News