1. Nurses tend to patients on board USS Sanctuary. 2. An ambulance bus carries personnel onto a C-130 for evacuation. 3. The Vietnam Brinks bachelor officers quarters (BOQ) in Saigon lies in ruins after a car bomb exploded. 4. From left: Lt. j.g. Ann Darby Reynolds, Lt. Frances Crumpton, and Lt. Ruth Ann Mason stand in front of Brinks BOQ. All three were wounded during the bombing. 5. Reynolds, right, triaged the injured after the explosion. She received a Purple Heart. 6. The Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington, D.C., honors nurses.
PHOTOS: 1. U.S. NAVY BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY; 2. COURTESY LT. COL. LYNDA ALEXANDER, USAF (RET); 3. AND 4. COURTESY FORMER NAVY LT. J.G. ANN DARBY REYNOLDS; 5. AP; 6. COURTESY VIETNAM WOMEN’S MEMORIAL