330-PSA-12-65 (KN-10517):   There of the four U.S. Navy Nurses awarded the Purple Heart in Vietnam, receive their awards from Captain Archie Kuntze, Commanding Officer, U.S. Naval Support Activity, Saigon.  The nurses (left to right): Lieutenant Barbara J. Wooster; Lieutenant Ruth A. Mason; and Lieutenant Junior Grade D. Reynolds, are the first women to receive the medal in Vietnam.  Another nurse Lieutenant Francis L. Crumpton, was flown to Clark Air Base, Philippines, earlier for treatment.  The nurses, although injured in the Communist bombing of the HQ on Christmas Eve, refused medical treatment for themselves while rendering First Aid to others wounded by the explosion.  Commander Miles D. Turley, Executive Officer of the Naval Support Activity (right), assists his Commanding Officer in the presentation.  Turley was wounded New Year’s Day while investigating reports of sniper fire on water skiers in the Saigon River.  Photograph released January 15, 1965.  (2015/11/10).  (Black and White Only).
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