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Researched account of U.S. Army and Navy nurses captured mainly in the Philippines, in Bataan and Corregidor. The nurses were called the Angels of Bataan and Corregidor by their grateful patients, and were exposed to the dangers of bombing despite…

A personal account by a Filipino doctor who was called to active service with the establishment of the US Army Forces in the Far East, through last minute training into the military medical corps.

The battle of Bataan is narrated from the point…

Personal account of a US Army medical officer in the defense of the Philippines and through prison camp life.

Gaskill was a surgeon in Fort Stotsenburg at the outbreak of war, and saw the Japanese attack on Clark Field. He was moved to Bamban and…

Saga of the ninety-nine American nurses – Army and Navy – who were thrust into World War II in Bataan and Corregidor. Their efforts to save the lives of wounded Americans and Filipinos earned them the name “Angels of Bataan and Corregidor.”

A few…

Personal account of a doctor who was called to service in 1941, ostensibly for one year. Instead of that one year, he was shipped to the Philippines and became a prisoner of war when Bataan fell. After two years in Philippine camps, he was moved to…

Schloat joined the army medical corps in July 1941, partly to be able to live on his own and also partly to escape the war in Europe; he was immediately sent to the Philippines and was assigned to the station hospital at Fort McKinley. When USAFFE…

One of the first personal accounts of Americans in the defense of the Philippines. Redmond arrived in the Philippines in1940, an Army nurse, and was assigned to the Fort Stotsenburg hospital, and later Sternberg General Hospital in Manila. She was an…

Prisoner of war diary of a Scandinavian-American college graduate who was drafted into the US Army, made a corpsman and sent to the Philippines just before the war broke out. His first days in Fort McKinley were, he considered paradise – hence the…

The author of this book was a US Navy Pharmacist’s Mate assigned to Cañacao Naval Hospital in Cavite and slated to return to the US on December 8, 1941.

The outbreak of war cancelled his orders, and instead he stayed on in the Philippines,…