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All this hell: U.S. nurses imprisoned by the Japanese

By Monahan , Evelyn

Book information

Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
ISBN
0813121485, 0813190614, 9780813190617, 9780813127446, 0813127440, 9780813137704, 0813137705
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6022559 bytes)
Pages
270 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1939-1945 -- Medical care -- United States;Prisone1939-1945--Medical care--United States;Medical carHISTORY--Military--World War II;Nurses--United Sta

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""Even though women were not supposed to be on the front lines, on the front lines we were. Women were not supposed to be interned either, but it happened to us. People should know what we endured. People should know what we can endure.""--Lt. Col. Madeline Ullom More than one hundred U.S. Army and Navy nurses were stationed in Guam and the Philippines at the beginning of World War II. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, five navy nurses on Guam became the first American military women of World War II to be taken prisoner by the Japanese. More than seventy army nurses su.

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