Kristin Hannah, the author of “The Nightingale,” takes readers back to the 1960s with her new release, “The Women.” This book illuminates a woman who served as a nurse in the Vietnam War. If you’re ...

More than 11,000 American women served in Vietnam — 90% of them as volunteer nurses. This KMBC 9 Chronicle shares the stories ...

On April 30, 1975, the city of Saigon in South Vietnam fell to the North Vietnamese forces, marking the end of the nearly 20-year Vietnam War. On April 30, 1975, the city of Saigon in South Vietnam ...

In the around 20 years the U.S. was involved in the Vietnam conflict, only one female soldier was killed by enemy fire.

Gen. George A. Joulwan, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, recognized the sacrifices made by Schuylkill County servicemen and women in Vietnam in a letter dated May 25, 1996. “As a company commander ...

Editor's Note: This article is part of KSAT’s special, "50 Years After The Fall: From Saigon to San Antonio," highlighting how the war in Vietnam affected veterans in the Alamo City and South Texas.

Kristin Hannah has been a juggernaut for three decades, crafting more than two-dozen historical fictions about women defining themselves during eventful times. Hannah’s publisher printed a million ...

The idea to write about nurses in combat zones in the Vietnam War came easy, novelist Kristin Hannah says. The writing? Not so much. “The Vietnam War was such a shadow across my childhood,” Hannah ...

Kristin Hannah has been a juggernaut for three decades, crafting more than two-dozen historical fictions about women defining themselves during eventful times. Hannah’s publisher printed a million ...

“Me love you long time,” a Vietnamese sex worker tells the U.S. troops, swiveling her hips as she hawks her services. “You party?” The first female character in Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam War classic ...