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Medals awarded posthumously to 1st Lt. Sharon Lane, including the Bronze Star “V” for valor, the Purple Heart, the Vietnam Gallantry Cross and the National Order of Vietnam, are included in a new exhibit about Lane, a U.S. Army nurse who was killed in June 1969 while serving at the 312th Evacuation Hospital in Chu Lai, South Vietnam. She was the only U.S. military nurse killed by enemy fire during the Vietnam War.
190111-F-JV236-1003.JPG Photo By: David DeKunder

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas - Medals awarded posthumously to 1st Lt. Sharon Lane, including the Bronze Star “V” for valor, the Purple Heart, the Vietnam Gallantry Cross and the National Order of Vietnam, are included in a new exhibit about Lane, a U.S. Army nurse who was killed in June 1969 while serving at the 312th Evacuation Hospital in Chu Lai, South Vietnam. She was the only U.S. military nurse killed by enemy fire during the Vietnam War.


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