![]() We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan. New York: Random House, 2013. "Star-Spangled Hearts": American Women Veterans of World War II. Frankfort, KY: Broadstone Books, 2011. So Proudly We Hail! Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 2007. Beyond the Call of Duty: Army Flight Nursing in World War II. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2013. Army Nurses in World War II. New York: Knopf, 2003.īarger, J. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. Military officials assumed that as nursing professionals, these women had sufficient coping skills to deal with the effects of their war experience. The military’s focus was on the recovery of the male internees. Some found the sudden freedom intimidating and preferred isolation to interaction with others. When they returned to the states, the American press sensationalized them, but was not interested in hearing them speak of the starvation, diseases and emotional stress they had endured. ![]() Severe malnutrition had a devastating effect on the health of these nurses for years. While experiencing gradual starvation, these nurses continued to care for the sick and wounded, under the eyes of their Japanese captors. The 78 nurses who were held captive in a concentration camp for three years by the Japanese in the Philippines had a uniquely intense nursing experience. Their sense of duty to the wounded soldier enabled them to overcome their fears. They speak of channeling the anger they feel toward the enemy into their nursing. ![]() The letters and narratives of the World War II nurses have a distinct sense of optimism and determination. More than 59,000 registered nurses served in the Army Nurse Corps alone. The women nurses of World War II were mobilized all over the world. ‘Now you’re going off to your assignments and whatever you do, just keep it (combat and POW experiences) to yourself, don’t talk about it.’ They treated it as if it was a stigma…I never talked to my family about it. When we came home… we had what they called ‘reorientation’. ![]() “…you didn’t talk about having been a prisoner of war. ![]()
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