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Dana Delany as First Lieutenant (later Captain) Colleen McMurphy, USA – a Catholic girl from Lawrence, Kansas, and army nurse with the 510th Evac Hospital in Vietnam during the late 1960s. A composite of various real-life Vietnam War nurses, the character illustrates her courage, kindness, and sacrifices during the war, as well as the severe ...
The show's character Nurse Colleen McMurphy, played by Dana Delany, roughly follows Van Devanter's experiences as a nurse in Vietnam. The book takes the reader from Van Devanter's wish to serve her country through the adventure she thought her deployment to Vietnam would be, her culture shock upon returning to the US, and her struggles with ...
November 23, 1967. U.S. Army nurse Colleen McMurphy begins the last week of her tour of duty in Vietnam with U.S. Air Force pilot Natch Austen making sexual advances toward her. USO singers Georgia and Laurette arrive for a week of events in country. American Red Cross volunteer Cherry White also arrives, looking for her missing brother.
For Kristin Hannah, writing a story about nurses who served during the Vietnam War is personal. (Kevin Lynch) "These gals went over raised on patriotic stories of WWII and of their father's service.
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Delany has become "something of a heroine to the nurses who served in Vietnam", according to Los Angeles Times writer Susan King, who noted that the actress worked on a nationwide nurse recruitment program in 1990 called the McMurphy project. [63] In 2007, Delany appeared in the films A Beautiful Life, Camp Hope, and Multiple Sarcasms. [64] [65 ...
More than 265,000 women served in the military during Vietnam, and 11,000 actually served in Vietnam, per the VA. Of those 11,000 women, 90% were nurses like Frankie. Of those 11,000 women, 90% ...
Kober visited Vietnam with co-star Dana Delany during filming of the television drama series China Beach (1988), which was based on U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Their visit is documented in the Dana Delany episode of the series Intimate Portrait (1993), which features a discussion and photographs of their journey.