Elgin Air Force Base in Okaloosa County, Florida — The American South (South Atlantic)
Nurses Memorial
Air Force Armament Museum
Photographed By Brandon D Cross, April 16, 2023
1. Linda Whitenton, Nurses Memorial (front)
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Nurses Memorial. Air Force Armament Museum. (front)
Linda Whitenton MSN, RN 1946 - . With fifty years of nursing and training nurses, Linda Whitenton casts a long shadow. Countless health degree students and employees were educated as a result of her work designing and directing nursing and health care programs in private and academic sectors. Locally, Linda built and oversaw the Northwest Florida State College Associate Degree Nursing Program, Registered Nursing to Bachelor of Science Nursing Degree programs. Emergency Medical Technician, Paramedic, Radiography Dental Assisting and Surgical Technology Programs. Her love for learning enriched her career and continues to enrich health professional careers., (left side)
Major Annie Gayton Fox 1893 - 1987. Fox served as an officer in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during the First World War and the Second World War. One month into her post as Chief Nurse, Hickman Field, Oahu, Hawaii. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, “The Day That Lives In Infamy.” The shocking bombing raids resulted in overwhelming numbers of injured and burned personnel. Yet Fox served with a “calming professionalism.” As a result of her work she became the first female recipient of the Purple Heart and Bronze Star commendations., (right side)
1st Lieutenant Sharon Ann Lane 1943 - 1969. Joining the U.S. Army Nurse Corps Reserve 1968, Lane served in the 312th Evacuation Hospital in in Chu Lai Vietnamese in the surgical ICU and in the Vietnamese Ward June 1969, one month shy of her twenty sixth birthday, Lane was killed by a salvo of 122mm rockets fired by the Vietnam Cong on the hospital. Though one in eight American military nurses died while serving in Vietnam. Lane was the only American nurse killed as a direct result of hostile fire. Lane was awarded the Purple Heart, Bronze Star with “V” device and the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm., (rear)
Florence Nightingale OM RRC 1820 - 1910. Known as the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale managed and trained nurses during the Crimean War. Lovingly known as a “Ministering Angel” and “Lady With the Lamp,” as she made rounds for wounded soldiers throughout the nights pursing professional roles for the women who came after her time. She founded her nursing school, St. Thomas’ Hospital in London and authored “Notes On Nursing.” Her legacy elevated the nursing profession in recognition of her work nurses today recite the “Nightingale Pledge” aiming for devoted service while encouraging elevation in achievements.
(front)
Linda Whitenton
MSN, RN
1946 -
With fifty years of nursing and training nurses, Linda Whitenton casts a long shadow. Countless health degree students and employees were educated as a result of her work designing and directing nursing and health care programs in private and academic sectors. Locally, Linda built and oversaw the Northwest Florida State College Associate Degree Nursing Program, Registered Nursing to Bachelor of Science Nursing Degree programs. Emergency Medical Technician, Paramedic, Radiography Dental Assisting and Surgical Technology Programs. Her love for learning enriched her career and continues to enrich health professional careers.
(left side)
Major
Annie Gayton Fox
1893 - 1987
Fox served as an officer in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during the First World War and the Second World War. One month into her post as Chief Nurse, Hickman Field, Oahu, Hawaii. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, “The Day That Lives In Infamy.” The shocking bombing raids resulted in overwhelming numbers of injured and burned personnel. Yet Fox served with a “calming professionalism.” As a result of her work she became the first female recipient of the Purple Heart and Bronze Star commendations.
(right side)
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Lieutenant
Sharon Ann Lane
1943 - 1969
Joining the U.S. Army Nurse Corps Reserve 1968, Lane served in the 312th Evacuation Hospital in in Chu Lai Vietnamese in the surgical ICU and in the Vietnamese Ward June 1969, one month shy of her twenty sixth birthday, Lane was killed by a salvo of 122mm rockets fired by the Vietnam Cong on the hospital. Though one in eight American military nurses died while serving in Vietnam. Lane was the only American nurse killed as a direct result of hostile fire. Lane was awarded the Purple Heart, Bronze Star with “V” device and the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm.
(rear)
Florence Nightingale
OM RRC
1820 - 1910
Known as the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale managed and trained nurses during the Crimean War. Lovingly known as a “Ministering Angel” and “Lady With the Lamp,” as she made rounds for wounded soldiers throughout the nights pursing professional roles for the women who came after her time. She founded her nursing school, St. Thomas’ Hospital in London and authored “Notes On Nursing.” Her legacy elevated the nursing profession in recognition of her work nurses today recite the “Nightingale Pledge” aiming for devoted service while encouraging elevation in achievements.
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Photographed By Brandon D Cross, April 16, 2023
2. Major Annie Gayton Fox, Nurses Memorial (left side)
Location. 30° 27.965′ N, 86° 33.668′ W. Marker is in Elgin Air Force Base, Florida, in Okaloosa County. Memorial can be reached from the intersection of Museum Drive and Pinchot Road (Florida Route 189). The memorial is within the grounds of the Air Force Armament Museum which is located outside the perimeter of Eglin Air Force Base. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 100 Museum Drive, Eglin AFB FL 32542, United States of America. Touch for directions.
3. 1st Lieutenant Sharon Ann Lane, Nurses Memorial (right side)
Air Force Armament Museum. (Submitted on September 27, 2023, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida.)
Photographed By Brandon D Cross, April 16, 2023
4. Florence Nightingale, Nurses Memorial (rear)
Credits. This page was last revised on September 28, 2023. It was originally submitted on September 27, 2023, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida. This page has been viewed 66 times since then and 14 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on September 27, 2023, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.