""Even though women were not supposed to be on the front lines,
on the front lines we were. Women were not supposed to be interned
either, but it happened to us. People should know what we endured.
People should know what we can endure."" -- Lt. Col. Madeline Ullom
More than one hundred U.S. Army and Navy nurses were stationed in
Guam and the Philippines at the beginning of World War II. 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. 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. When freedom came, the U.S.
military ordered the nurses to sign agreements with the government
not to discuss their horrific experiences. 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.
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