She dies midway through the second season during the Tet Offensive in January 1968. Nan Woods as Cherry White (seasons 1–2) – a naive Red Cross volunteer ("doughnut dolly") from Iowa, she comes to China Beach to search for her brother Rick, a Marine Infantryman, who was reported MIA after the Battle of Khe Sanh.A composite of various real-life Vietnam War nurses, the character illustrates their courage, kindness, and sacrifices during the war, as well as the severe emotional scarring of noncombatant personnel during and following military service several episodes feature the veterans in their own words, intercut with the storyline. 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.The show was cancelled before it could fully address McMurphy's PTSD issues. 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 States", and her struggles with PTSD. The show's character Nurse Colleen McMurphy roughly follows Van Devanter's experiences as a nurse in Vietnam. The show was inspired in part by the book Home Before Morning (1983) written by the former U.S. The show does not shy away from showing the brutality of war it provides a gritty view of the experience and its aftermath. The series also features the experiences of the characters when they return to the United States, either on leave or at the end of their tours of duty. Set at the fictitious 510th Evacuation Hospital and R&R facility (the "Five-and-Dime"), the series' cast of characters includes US Army doctors and nurses, officers, soldiers, Red Cross volunteers and civilian personnel (American, French, and Vietnamese). John Wells took over most of the series beginning with the second season and many of the show's cast members appeared later on another Wells production, ER. and John Sacret Young, the series looks at the Vietnam War from the perspectives of the women, military personnel and civilians who were present during the conflict. The series originally ran on ABC for four seasons from Apto July 22, 1991.Ĭreated by William Broyles Jr. The title refers to My Khe beach in the city of Đà Nẵng, Vietnam, nicknamed "China Beach" in English by American and Australian soldiers during the Vietnam War. That evening, Major-General William Bridges, commander of the 1st Australian Division, and Lieutenant-General Sir William Birdwood, commander of ANZAC, both advised General Sir Ian Hamilton, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, that the Allied force be withdrawn from the peninsula.China Beach is an American war drama television series set at an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War. The Turks mounted a fierce counter-attack regaining much of the ground the Anzacs had taken. The Anzac position became progressively more precarious as the Anzacs failed to secure their high-ground objectives. In the time it takes us to die, other troops and commanders can come and take our places.' Kemal’s orders to his men are said to have been: ‘I don't order you to fight, I order you to die. Turkish resistance remained strong, and the Anzacs were subjected to devastating artillery bombardments.īy mid-morning Turkish reinforcements had arrived under Mustapha Kemal (later Kemal Ataturk, president of Turkey). Once on the beach, many units became separated from one another as they began moving up the tangle of complex spurs and ravines in the darkness.
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