The two women, both 22, were the first American female service members to lose their lives in the Vietnam War. Over the course of that conflict, eight American women service members lost their lives.

Military historians estimate that in the 1950s, nearly a million female guerrillas took part in the war against colonial French forces. In the conflict with the U.S., 40% of the Viet Cong’s ...

Over 265,000 American women served in the military during the Vietnam War, including 11,000 in Vietnam—90% as volunteer nurses handling critical trauma cases. Their responsibilities included ...

These eight are hidden figures, dwarfed by the more than 58,300 names of men who died in service or who remain missing in action from the Vietnam War. All military nurses, the women died of ...

Carlson Evans said she led the effort for the establishment of the women's memorial to honor the 265,000 women who served in the military during the Vietnam War. Thousands of those women were in ...

The Vietnam War produced some of the most classic films of the late 1970s and 1980s. The Vietnam War Produced Classic Hollywood Films — and Hardly Any Classic Female Roles | Military.com Profile ...

But women have always played indispensable roles in battle, even if they’ve been historically relegated to the sidelines—and the Vietnam War was no exception.

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick discuss details of the documentary, which continues to air at nightly on PBS through Thursday. Women have been involved with war efforts throughout history, but the more ...

During the Vietnam War, Pan Am had an exclusive contract with the Department of Defense to run R&R (rest and recreation) flights for soldiers on leave throughout the Pacific.