In Honor Of
Women Patriots:
KIA/POW/MIA
Vietnam War

Military:

* Click name to read additional info

U.S. Army

2nd Lt. Carol Ann Elizabeth Drazba
2nd Lt. Elizabeth Ann Jones
Lt. Drazba and Lt. Jones were assigned to the 3rd Field
Hospital in Saigon. They died in a helicopter crash near
Saigon, February 18, 1966. Drazba was from Dunmore, PA.,
Jones from Allendale, SC. Both were 22 years old.

Capt. Eleanor Grace Alexander
1st Lt. Hedwig Diane Orlowski
Capt. Alexander of Westwood, NJ and Lt. Orlowski of Detroit,
MI died November 30, 1967. Alexander, stationed at the
85th Evacuation Hospital and Orlowski, stationed at the
67th Evacuation Hospital, in Qui Nhon, had been sent to a
hospital in Pleiku to help out during a push. With them
when their plane crashed on the return trip to Qui Nhon were
two other nurses, Jerome E. Olmstead of Clintonville, WI
and Kenneth R. Shoemaker, Jr. of Owensboro, KY. Alexander
was 27, Orlowski 23. Both were posthumously awarded
Bronze Stars.

2nd Lt. Pamela Dorothy Donovan
Lt. Donovan, from Allston, MA, died of pneumonia in Qui Nhon
on July 8, 1968. She was assigned to the 85th Evacuation
Hospital in Qui Nhon. She was 26 years old.

1st Lt. Sharon Ann Lane
Lt. Lane died from shrapnel wounds when the 312th
Evacuation Hospital at Chu Lai was hit by rockets on
June 8, 1969. From Canton, OH, she was a month short
of her 26th birthday. She was posthumously awarded
the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm and the
Bronze Star for Heroism. In 1970, the recovery room
at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in Denver, where Lt. Lane
had been assigned before going to Vietnam, was
dedicated in her honor. In 1973, Aultman Hospital in
Canton, OH, where Lane had attended nursing school,
erected a bronze statue of Lane. The names of 110 local
servicemen killed in Vietnam are on the base of the statue.

*Lt. Col. Annie Ruth Graham
Chief Nurse at 91st Evacuation Hospital, Tuy Hoa.
Lt. Col. Graham, from Efland, NC, suffered a stroke in
August 1969 and was evacuated to Japan where she died
four days later. A veteran of both World War II and
Korea, she was 52.

U.S. Air Force:

Capt. Mary Therese Klinke
Capt. Klinker, a flight nurse assigned to Clark Air Base
in the Philippines, was on the C-5A Galaxy which crashed
on April 4 outside Saigon while evacuating Vietnamese
orphans. This is known as the Operation Babylift crash.
From Lafayette, IN, she was 27. She was posthumously
awarded the Airman's Medal for Heroism and the Meritorious
Service Medal.

Civilian:

American Red Cross:

Hannah Crews
Died in a jeep accident, Bien Hoa, 1969.

Virginia Kirsch
Murdered by U.S. soldier in Cu Chi, 1970.

Lucinda Richter
Died of Gillian-Barre disease, Cam Ranh Bay, 1971.

Army Special Services

Rosalyn Muskat
Died in a jeep accident, Bien Hoa, 1968.

Dorothy Phillips
Died in a plane crash, Qui Nhon, 1967.

Catholic Relief Services

Gloria Redlin
Shot in Pleiku, 1969.

Central Intelligence Agency

Barbara Robbins
Died in the bombing of the American Embassy, Saigon,
30 March, 1965.

United States Agency for International Development

Lynn Allen
Murdered by U.S. soldier in Nha Trang, 1967.

Journalists

Georgette "Dickey" Chappelle
Killed by a mine on patrol with Marines outside
Chu Lai, 1965.

Phillipa Schuyler
Killed in a firefight, Da Nang, 1966.

Missionaries

Carolyn Griswald
Killed in a raid on the leprosarium in Ban Me Thuot
during Tet 1968.

Janie A. Makel
Shot in an ambush, Dalat, 1963. Janie was five months old.

Ruth Thompson
Killed in a raid on the leprosarium in Ban Me Thuot
during Tet 1968.

Ruth Wilting
Killed in a raid on the leprosarium in Ban Me Thuot
during Tet 1968.

POW/MIA

* Evelyn Anderson
Captured and burned to death in Kengkok, Laos, 1972.

Remains recovered and returned to U.S.

* Beatrice Kosin
Captured and burned to death in Kengkok, Laos, 1972.

Remains recovered and returned to U.S.

Betty Ann Olsen
Captured during raid on the leprosarium in Ban Me Thuot
during Tet 1968. Died in 1968 and was buried somewhere
along the Ho Chi Minh Trail by fellow POW, Michael Benge.
Remains not recovered.

Eleanor Ardel Vietti
Captured at the leprosarium in Ban Me Thuot,
May 30, 1962.
Still listed as a POW.

Operation Babylift

The following women were killed in the crash, outside
Saigon, of the C5-A Galaxy transporting Vietnamese
children out of the country on April 4, 1975. All of
the women were working for various U.S. government
agencies in Saigon at the time of their deaths with the
exception of Theresa Drye (a child), and Laurie Stark
(a teacher). Sharon Wesley had previously worked for
both the American Red Cross and Army Special Services.
She chose to stay on in Vietnam after the pullout of U.S.
military forces in 1973.

Barbara Adams
Clara Bayot
Nova Bell
Arleta Bertwell
Helen Blackburn
Ann Bottorff
Celeste Brown
Vivienne Clark
Juanita Creel
Mary Ann Crouch
Dorothy Curtiss
Twila Donelson
Helen Drye
Theresa Drye
Mary Lyn Eichen
Elizabeth Fugino
Ruthanne Gasper
Beverly Herbert
Penelope Hindman
Vera Hollibaugh
Dorothy Howard
Barbara Kauvulia
Barbara Maier
Rebecca Martin
Sara Martini
Martha Middlebrook
Katherine Moore
Marta Moschkin
Marion Polgrean
June Poulton
Joan Pray
Sayonna Randall
Anne Reynolds
Marjorie Snow
Laurie Stark
Barbara Stout
Doris Jean Watkins
Sharon Wesley

Sources: Vietnam Women's Memorial Project (Military)
and A Circle of Sisters/A Circle of Friends (Civilian).

Vietnam Women's Memorial Project, 2001 S Street NW,
Suite 302,
Washington, DC 20009 202-328-7253

A Circle of Sisters/A Circle of Friends is a coalition
of women who served as civilians with various
organizations in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
It is a private, nonprofit, educational organization
founded to create an archival collection documenting
civilian service in war, and to honor the memory of the
American civilian casualties of the Vietnam War.
For more information contact Jolynne Strang,
1015 South Gaylord, Suite 190, Denver,CO. 80209, 303-575-1311.