all this hell Author:evelyn m. monahan hundreds of U.S. army and navy nurses were stationed in Guam — and the Philippines in the first years of WWII. after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, five navy nurses on Guam became the first American military women of the war to be taken prisoner by the Japanese. More than 70 army nurses survived five months of combat condit... more »ions in the
jungles of Bataan and Corregidor before being captured only to endure more than three years in prison camps.« less