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The duty dress and utility fatigue trousers and shirt worn by 1st Lt. Sharon Lane, a U.S. Army nurse who served in the Vietnam War, are included in a new exhibit about Lane recently installed at the U.S. Army Medical Department Museum at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. Lane was killed in June 1969 at the 312th Evacuation Hospital in Chu Lai, South Vietnam from mortar and rocket fire directed at the hospital by Viet Cong forces. Other artifacts in the exhibit include the Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals awarded to her posthumously, and interpretative signage about Lane’s life, service and death. Lane was the only U.S. military nurse killed by enemy fire during the Vietnam War.
190111-F-JV236-1002.JPG Photo By: David DeKunder

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas - The duty dress and utility fatigue trousers and shirt worn by 1st Lt. Sharon Lane, a U.S. Army nurse who served in the Vietnam War, are included in a new exhibit about Lane recently installed at the U.S. Army Medical Department Museum at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. Lane was killed in June 1969 at the 312th Evacuation Hospital in Chu Lai, South Vietnam from mortar and rocket fire directed at the hospital by Viet Cong forces. Other artifacts in the exhibit include the Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals awarded to her posthumously, and interpretative signage about Lane’s life, service and death. Lane was the only U.S. military nurse killed by enemy fire during the Vietnam War.


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