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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.
She was also referred to in the film Girl No. 217, which depicted atrocities committed against Soviet prisoners of war by the Nazis. Her image was also used frequently in anti-German propaganda which encouraged violence against the German occupying forces.
The Rochambelles were the first women’s unit integrated into an armored division on the western front during World War II. A total of 51 women served in the First Company, 13th medical battalion of the French Second Armored Division from 1943 to 1945, and then some members continued on to Indochina.
The first large group of American women in combat. [64] The largest group of American women taken captive and imprisoned by an enemy. [64] During World War II, the captured nurses were portrayed to motivate industrial production. [65] During World War II, the captured nurses were portrayed to motivate recruitment of additional military nurses. [66]
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann (30 May 1922 – 4 July 1946) was a German overseer in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. She was tried and executed for crimes against humanity after the war. She was tried and executed for crimes against humanity after the war.
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 ...
Despite this, Powell fell in love with a German prisoner, Frederick (German: Friedrich) Albert, who was a Luftwaffe medic from Vienna who had been captured in Italy. [3] This was incredibly risky, as such a relationship could get her court-martialled. Powell met Albert in the mess hall, where he was assigned to work as a cook.