Navy Nurses in the Philippine Islands

Navy nurses in Canacas, Philippine Islands, circa 1940-1941. Front Row; T. Metcalf, Ruth Anthony, Katherine Yarnell, Martha Smith. Back: A. Bernatitus, Peggy Nash, Jamie Taylor, Goldie O’Haver, Dorothy Still. Several of the nurses pictured would become part of the “Sacred Eleven” who would spend three years in a Japanese internment camp near Manila.

Photo size: 3000 × 2107
Photo source: U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Usage: Public Domain