Navy Nurses Rescued from Los Banos Speak with Admiral
Chief Nurse Laura Cobb speaking to Vice Admiral Thomas Kinkaid after rescue from Los Baños, March 1945. They were part
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Author: Margie Bedell-Burke
Lieutenant Commander Laura M. Cobb, Navy Nurse Corps
Official portrait of Lieutenant Commander Laura M. Cobb, Nurse Corps, United States Navy. Laura Mae Cobb served during both WWI
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Army Nurses Leaving Manila in Trucks After Rescue
U.S. Army Nurses from Bataan and Corregidor leaving Manila in trucks after being freed from three years imprisonment at the
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Freed Army Nurses Leaving Manila in 1945
U.S. Army nurses from Bataan and Corregidor, freed after 3 years imprisonment in Santo Tomas Internment Compound, climb into trucks
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Angels of Bataan Arrive at Hickam Field in Hawaii
Japanese forces captured the nurses on Corregidor in 1942. The nurses, along with 3,700 men, women, and children civilian prisoners
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Recently Freed Army Nurses Awarded Bronze Stars
Army nurses, taken prisoners by the Japanese at Bataan and Corregidor during WWII, and recently freed from the Santo Tomas
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Former POW Army Nurses Receive Orders
Lieut. Colonel Nola G. Forrest, Director of Nursing in the SWPA, distributes orders to the Army Nurses liberated from Santo
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Rescued Army Nurses Shopping at the PX
“A Big Piece of Heaven” – that’s the name given to the first PX that these Army nurses have been
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Sylvia Greenbaum Novarr of the WAVES
Sylvia Greenbaum Novarr, originally of Hartford, Connecticut, was sworn into the WAVES in 1943. During the war she was stationed
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Rebecca Wolinsky and Fellow WACs in New Guinea
Rebecca Wolinsky (kneeling second from left) poses with fellow WACs in New Guinea during World War II. Photo size: 1952
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