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  2. Catherine Leroy - Wikipedia

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    Catherine Leroy (August 27, 1944 - July 8, 2006) was a French-born photojournalist and war photographer, whose stark images of battle illustrated the story of the Vietnam War in the pages of Life magazine and other publications. [1]

  3. Field telephone - Wikipedia

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    Field telephones are telephones used for military communications. They can draw power from their own battery, from a telephone exchange (via a central battery known as CB), or from an external power source. Some need no battery, being sound-powered telephones. Telephone linesmen ford Lunga River during the Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II

  4. Women in the Vietnam War - Wikipedia

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    In 1984, the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project was founded by Diane Carlson Evans, leading to the creation of the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington D.C. in 1993. [112] [113] The Vietnam Women's Memorial is in Constitution Gardens, a park on the National Mall. [114] [115] It honors the American women who served in the Vietnam War. [116]

  5. Dickey Chapelle - Wikipedia

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    Despite early support for Fidel Castro, [6] Chapelle was an outspoken anti-Communist, and loudly expressed these views at the beginning of the Vietnam War.Her stories in the early 1960s extolled the American military advisors who were already fighting and dying in South Vietnam, and the Sea Swallows, the anticommunist militia led by Father Nguyễn Lạc Hoá.

  6. Kristin Hannah wanted to write about Vietnam for years. Why ...

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    She becomes one of Army’s women nurses, who have been largely forgotten from the narrative of the Vietnam War. More than 265,000 women served in the military during Vietnam, and 11,000 actually ...

  7. SCR-536 - Wikipedia

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    Plug in crystals and coils were used to control the frequency of the receiver and transmitter. The antenna was a 40 inch (102 cm) telescoping rod that slid into the case. The SCR-536 had an RF output power of 360 milliwatts. The range of the unit varied with terrain; from a few hundred feet (about a hundred metres), to approximately one mile (1 ...

  8. Anne ‘asked pertinent questions’ about women in WW2 navy ...

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    The Princess Royal “asked pertinent questions” at a Buckingham Palace garden party about the work of the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS), a Second World War veteran said.

  9. American women in World War II - Wikipedia

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    American women in World War II became involved in many tasks they rarely had before; as the war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale, the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable. Their services were recruited through a variety of methods, including posters and other ...

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