Advertisement

Topic - Sharon Lane

Related Stories

This April 2019 photo, shows a statue of Sharon Lane displayed Aultman Hospital in Canton, Ohio. Lane, a first lieutenant, was killed 50 years ago this week - June 8, 1969 - when a rocket hit the the 312th Evacuation Hospital's Vietnamese ward in Chu Lai. She was 25. (Scott Heckel/The Canton Repository via AP)

Ohio nurse’s legacy lives on 50 years after death in Vietnam

By JESSICA HOLBROOK - Associated Press

In this Aug. 30, 1968, photo provided by Philip Bigler, author of Hostile Fire, U.S. Army nurse Sharon Lane is congratulated by a military official as she's promoted to first lieutenant in Aurora, Colo. Lane, the only American servicewoman killed by hostile fire in the Vietnam War, has been immortalized in books, statues and a television show, and veterans still gather at her grave five decades after her death. (U.S. Army/Hostile Fire/Vandamere Press via AP)

Friends recall only nurse killed by hostile fire in Vietnam

By DAKE KANG - Associated Press