‘One of the most gallant stands in U.S. history’ preceded the brutal ‘Bataan Death March’
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American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese are shown at the start of the Death March after the surrender of Bataan on April 9 near Mariveles in the Philippines in 1942 during World War II. Starting on April 10 from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Penisula, 70,000 POWs were force-marched to Camp O Donnell, a new prison camp 65 miles away. (AP Photo)ASSOCIATED PRESS
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As the Battle of Bataan in the Philippines neared its end, soldiers were not giving up.
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In honor of Women’s History Month, here is a story of valor, honor, and perseverance: the story of the Angels of Bataan, a group of U.S. Army and Navy nurses held captive by the Japanese in the Philippines for three grueling years during World War II.
A recruiting poster for the Navy Nurse Corps (NHHC)
The story begins on 8 December 1941, sometime in the predawn hours. Business was usual in the U.S. military hospitals located across the Philippines. But the nurses and other medical staff at Canacao Naval Hospital, Sternberg Hospital, Fort Mills Hospital, Camp John Hay Hospital, Fort McKinley Hospital, and elsewhere were about to receive the news that would change their lives forever.
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Published February 22, 2021, 12:33 AM
WALA LANG
Seniors old enough remember cannon booms, smoke, and flashes of light reaching Dewey Boulevard from across the bay, from Bataan and Corregidor where Filipino and American soldiers were making a stand against Japanese invaders. That was exactly 79 years ago in February 1942.
Manila and Clark Field were bombed by the Japanese on the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 8, 1941. War had begun and President
Manuel L. Quezon and Gen.
Douglas MacArthur evacuated government and the military high command to Corregidor on Dec. 26, just before the Japanese entered Manila the following week on Jan. 2.
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