When Doreen Chandler's brother was killed one week before he was to be deployed to Vietnam his sister Doreen wants to honour his last wish. When fellow nursing sisters Angela Sutcliffe, Debbie Albright and Joyce Kennedy discover she intends to join the Australian Air Force for a twelve month rotation on one of the medical ships sitting in the South China Sea when she had finished her Nursing degree, they decide to join along with her.Evac Medic is Doreen Chandlers story of how one person can mean life or death to the many ground forces wounded during the Vietnam War. Of the danger she placed herself in to fly to the front line in the choppers called Dust Offs to retrieve the dying and wounded and keep them alive until they reached medical care. It is also where you will meet the men who flew those Dust Off's risking life and limb as they flew the wounded to safety.
