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Key Points:
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- 77 American military nurses were taken prisoner in the Philippines during World War II and became known as the “Angels of Bataan and Corregidor.”.
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- The nurses provided life-saving medical care to civilian POWs in Santo Tomas and Los Banos Internment Camps, despite facing critically undersupplied conditions.
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- The nurses endured a five-year imprisonment from May 1942 to February 1945 but received limited recognition for their heroic acts after liberation.
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- Prior to the war, many of the nurses saw the Philippines as an opportunity for adventure and sought out this assignment.
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- The nurses pivoted from their regular duties to trauma nursing to care for the casualties of the Japanese bombing campaign.
Archive Links:
12ft: https://12ft.io/https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/nurse-pows-bataan-and-corregidor
archive.org: Nurse POWs: Angels of Bataan and Corregidor | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
Original Link: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/nurse-pows-bataan-and-corregidor
User Message: Guess they are now also considered unimportant and obsolete:
While the Bataan Death March is a well-known event of forced transfer and suffering of American and Filipino POWs, the story of the “Angels of Bataan and Corregidor,” the nurses captured and imprisoned, is a lesser-known but equally important part of the story.
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