We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan
A History, North American Hi..., War book. On Thursday, March 26, as the assault continued and as his troops wasted...
In the fall of 1941, the Philippines was a gardenia-scented paradise for the American Army and Navy nurses stationed there. War was a distant rumor, life a routine of easy shifts and dinners under the stars. On December 8 all that changed, as Japanese bombs began raining down on American bases in Luzon, and this paradise became a fiery hell. Caught in the raging battle, the nurses set up field hospitals in the jungles of Bataan and the tunnels of Corregidor, where they tended to the most devastating injuries of war, and suffered the terrors of shells and shrapnel. But the worst was yet to come. After Bataan and Corregidor fell, the nurses were herded into internment camps where they would endure three years of fear, brutality, and...
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- ISBN: 9780812984842 / 812984846
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On Thursday, March 26, as the assault continued and as his troops wasted away, General MacArthur, safely in Australia, received the Congressional Medal of Honor from the U.S. minister there. General Wainwright, learning of the news, radioed his congratulations from Corregidor, even as the bombs were falling on top of him. He also reported on the desperate state of his supplies. Elizabeth M. Norman, We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese // Teaching and office work held little appealthe former meant taking care of someone elses children, the latter someone elses manso they entered the only other profession open to them, nursing. After Elizabeth M. Norman, We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese // IN OBVIOUS WAYS the work of war is easy, kill or be killed. Survival, however, is another matter, much more difficult, for it requires an endurance, a cunning and a strength of will that fighting does not. Elizabeth M. Norman, We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese //
This book was deeply interesting, but more difficult to read than I had expected, simply because of the horrible experiences these women went through: treating thousands of casualties under extreme conditions during the disastrous siege of Bataanliterally on the jungle floor, under enemy bombardmentand later three years of confinement... I received this book from the Goodreads First Reads Program.This is the account of Navy nurses deployed to the Philippines during World War II. It seemed like an assignment in paradise, until December 8, 1941 when the Japanese began dropping bombs. The nurses served in a field hospital they set up in the Jungle of Bataan to care for... They were mostly daughters of farmers and blue collar workers. Not having much better options, the USA having just gone through the Great Depression, they decided to join the US military as nurses.Assigned to the Philippines, they were having the time of their lives with very little work to do and lots of handsome military men (Americans,...
