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An interpretative display details the life, service and death of 1st Lt. Sharon Lane, a U.S. Army nurse who was killed in action during the Vietnam War. She was the only U.S. military nurse to die from enemy fire during the conflict. Lane was a nurse at the 312th Evacuation Hospital in Chu Lai, South Vietnam, when it came under enemy fire in June 1969. While trying to move patients to safety, Lane was killed by fragments from a Soviet-built 122 mm rocket that struck the ward she was working.
190111-F-JV236-1004.JPG Photo By: David DeKunder

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas - An interpretative display details the life, service and death of 1st Lt. Sharon Lane, a U.S. Army nurse who was killed in action during the Vietnam War. She was the only U.S. military nurse to die from enemy fire during the conflict. Lane was a nurse at the 312th Evacuation Hospital in Chu Lai, South Vietnam, when it came under enemy fire in June 1969. While trying to move patients to safety, Lane was killed by fragments from a Soviet-built 122 mm rocket that struck the ward she was working.


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