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Army Nurses 

Recently Freed Army Nurses Awarded Bronze Stars

November 7, 2017November 7, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments angels of bataan, army nurses, Bronze Star, internment camp, Japanese, Leyte Island, Manila, POW, Santo Tomas

Army nurses, taken prisoners by the Japanese at Bataan and Corregidor during WWII, and recently freed from the Santo Tomas

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Army Nurses 

Rescued Army Nurses Shopping at the PX

November 6, 2017November 6, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments angels of bataan, army nurses, Army PX, internment camp, Japanese, prisoners, shopping, WWII nurses

“A Big Piece of Heaven” – that’s the name given to the first PX that these Army nurses have been

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Navy Nurses 

Navy Nurses Recently Freed From Internment

October 31, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Dorothy Still, Edwina Todd, Eldene Paige, internment camp, Navy nurses, Philippines

U.S. Navy Nurses recently freed from internment in the Philippines, 1945. Shown, left to right: Lieutenant Eldene Paige; Lieutenant Edwina

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Navy Nurses 

Rescued POW Nurse Recuperates at Bethesda

October 31, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments Bethesda, Dorothy Still, internment camp, Japanese, Maryland, Philippines, POW, prisoner of war

Lieutenant Dorothy Still recuperates from her Prisoner of War ordeal at the National Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, in the spring

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Navy Nurses 

Recently Freed POW Nurses in Long Beach, California

October 31, 2017 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments California, Dorothy Still, globe, internment camp, Long Beach, Naval Hospital, Navy nurses, Philippines, POW

Recently freed nurses from a POW camp in the Philippines, at the U.S. Naval Hospital Long Beach, California, 1945. Left

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Navy Nurses 

Freed U.S. Navy Nurses Homeward Bound

October 31, 2017January 15, 2018 Margie Bedell-Burke 0 Comments airplane, Dorothy Still, internment camp, Japanese, Laura Cobb, leis, Navy nurses, Pearl Harbor, Philippines, POW, prisoner of war, Sacred Eleven

Eleven U.S. Navy Nurses, rescued in February 1945 from the Las Banos internment camp on Luzon, Philippines, pause at Pearl

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