""Even though women were not supposed to be on the front lines, on the front lines we were.
Evelyn Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have conducted numerous interviews with survivors and scoured archives for letters, diaries, and journals to uncover the heroism and sacrifices of these brave women.. military ordered the Nurses to sign agreements with the government not to discuss their horrific experiences.
When freedom came, the U.
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More than seventy army Nurses survived five months of combat conditions in the jungles of Bataan and Corregidor before being captured, only to endure more than three years in prison camps.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, five navy Nurses on Guam became the first American military women of World War II to be taken prisoner by the Japanese.
Army and Navy Nurses were stationed in Guam and the Philippines at the beginning of World War II.
Madeline Ullom More than one hundred U.
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People should know what we can endure."" -- Lt.
People should know what we endured.
Women were not supposed to be interned either, but it happened to us. ""Even though women were not supposed to be on the front lines, on the front lines we were
