Diane Kay Corcoran Collection

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Who's responsible?: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries (Repository)
How much has been digitized?: Only a part of this collection has been digitized.
Where can I find more information?: https://uncg.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/1450
What's in the full collection?: The collection includes a January 2012 oral history transcript; photographs; a poster of the Superintendents and Chiefs Army Nurse Corps, 1901-1975); Vietnam Army nurse uniforms (Hot Weather Field Uniform blouse and skirt; green and white cord striped summer blouse and skirt.)
Full biography: Diane Kay Corcoran (b. 1946) served in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) from 1969-1992. Diane Kay Corcoran was born in 1946 in Rochester, New York, where she also grew up. She attended the Genesee Hospital School of Nursing, where she signed up as a cadet in the United States Army Nurse Corps in her final year, joining the service full time upon her graduation in 1968. Corcoran attended basic training at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. Her first assignment was to the Letterman Army Hospital of the Presidio in San Francisco, where she worked in a combined neurosurgery and intensive care unit. She then received orders to Vietnam, leaving on the 15th of August, 1969, spending approximately a year there. Upon returning to the United States, she took a year out of the service and obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree (BSN), and returned to service. During the course of her service, Corcoran was also stationed at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, and in 1976 became the chief nurse at the 86th combat support hospital at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. She also obtained her PhD, and retired in 1992 as a colonel.
Topics: Women's History
Military
Branch of service: Army -- Army Nurse Corps
Conflict: Vietnam Era (1964-1974)
Subject headings: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
United States. Army--Women
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

Pages

: Diane Corcoran and seven other women in uniform

: Diane Corcoran earns bronze star

: Diane Kay Corcoran; Diane Kay Corcoran on vacation in Hong Kong, 1970.

: Diane Kay Corcoran at her desk; Diane Kay Corcoran working at her desk in Germany sometime between 1989 and 1991. Corcoran wears Nurse Corps lieutenant colonel insignia.

: Diane Kay Corcoran at the 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam.; Diane Kay Corcoran holding a Vietnamese child at 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam, with unnamed individuals.

: Diane Kay Corcoran dancing, Vietnam; Diane Kay Corcoran in civilian clothing dancing with unnamed individual in uniform.

: Diane Kay Corcoran delivering care package to soldier at the 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam; Diane Kay Corcoran delivering a care package to a wounded soldier at the 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam, as another male soldier looks on.

: Diane Kay Corcoran dressed up, Vietnam; Photograph of Diane Kay Corcoran wearing a dress and a hat.

: Diane Kay Corcoran during the holidays, Long Binh, Vietnam; Diane Kay Corcoran in Vietnam, December, 1970. Christmas decorations can be seen in the background.

: Diane Kay Corcoran holding a Vietnamese baby at 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam.; Diane Kay Corcoran holds a Vietnamese baby at the 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam.

: Diane Kay Corcoran holding a gun, Vietnam; Diane Kay Corcoran in an olive drab field uniform, holding a M16 rifle during a MEDCAP, a medical civic action providing out-patient health services to South Vietnamese. Corcoran is accompanied by two male soldiers.

: Diane Kay Corcoran looks on as patient reads letter, 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam; Diane Kay Corcoran looks on as a wounded soldier reads a letter from a care package at the 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam. She is attired in an olive drab field uniform.

: Diane Kay Corcoran on the phone, Long Binh, Vietnam; Diane Kay Corcoran on the phone at the 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam, 1970. The Army Nurse Corps insignia is visible on her lapel.

: Diane Kay Corcoran tending a patient, at 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam; Diane Kay Corcoran tends to a male patient at 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam.

: Diane Kay Corcoran with Vietnamese children at a MEDCAP; Diane Kay Corcoran with Vietnamese civilians during a MEDCAP, a medical civic action providing out-patient health services to South Vietnamese.

: Diane Kay Corcoran with crying Vietnamese child at a MEDCAP; Diane Kay Corcoran holding a crying Vietnamese child during a MEDCAP, a medical civic action providing out-patient health services to South Vietnamese."

: Diane Kay Corcoran with patient, 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam; Diane Kay Corcoran tends to a patient in the hospital at 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam.

: Diane Kay Corcoran with three Vietnamese children by a Christmas tree, Vietnam; Diane Kay Corcoran with three Vietnamese children by a Christmas tree. They seem to be either opening presents or preparing to decorate the tree.

: Diane Kay Corcoran with two Vietnamese children at a MEDCAP; Diane Kay Corcoran handing an item to a Vietnamese child during a MEDCAP, a medical civic action providing out-patient health services to South Vietnamese."

: Diane Kay Corcoran with unnamed individual, 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam; Diane Kay Corcoran with an unnamed individual in the hospital at the 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam.

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Women Veterans Historical Project