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First Lieutenant Reba Zitella Whittle (August 19, 1919 – January 26, 1981 [1]) was a member of the United States Army Nurse Corps during World War II.She became the only American military female prisoner of war in the European Theater after her casualty evacuation aircraft was shot down in September 1944.
Colonel Ruby Bradley (December 19, 1907 – May 28, 2002) was a United States Army Nurse Corps officer, a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II, and one of the most decorated women in the United States military. [1] She was a native of Spencer, West Virginia but lived in Falls Church, Virginia, for over 50 years.
Elisabeth Volkenrath (née Mühlau; 5 September 1919 – 13 December 1945) was a German supervisor at several Nazi concentration camps during World War II.. Volkenrath, née Mühlau, was an ungelernte Hilfskraft (unskilled worker) when she volunteered for service in a concentration camp. [1]
Irma Ilse Ida Grese was born to Berta Grese and Alfred Grese, both dairy workers, on 7 October 1923. Irma was the third eldest (three sisters and two brothers). [7] In 1936, her mother committed suicide by drinking hydrochloric acid following the discovery of Alfred’s affair with a local pub owner's daughter. [8]
Josephine May Davis (née} Nesbit; December 23, 1894 – August 16, 1993) was an American nurse who served in the United States Army Nurse Corps. [2] She was second-in-command of the Angels of Bataan, army nurses stationed in the Philippine Islands during World War II, [2] who were the largest group of American women taken as prisoners of war. [3]
Undercover work to assist Allied prisoners of war in the Philippines during World War II Margaret Elizabeth Doolin "Peggy" Utinsky (August 26, 1900 – August 30, 1970) [ 1 ] was an American nurse who worked with the Filipino resistance movement to provide medicine, food, and other items to aid Allied prisoners of war in the Philippines during ...
Else Lieschen Frida "Elsa" Ehrich (8 March 1914 – 26 October 1948) was a convicted war criminal who served as a Schutzstaffel (SS) guard in Nazi concentration camps, including at Kraków-Płaszów and the Majdanek concentration camp during World War II. She was tried in Lublin, Poland at the Majdanek Trials and sentenced to death for war ...
Herta Bothe (8 March 1921 – 16 March 2000) was a German concentration camp guard during World War II. She was imprisoned for war crimes after the defeat of Nazi Germany , and was subsequently released early from prison on 22 December 1951.