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"Dorothy Still Danner: Reminiscences of a Nurse POW" (PDF). Navy Medicine. 83 (3): 36– 40. Louis Morton, US Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific--The Fall of the Philippines (United States Army Center of Military History, 1952) "A Tribute to Our Nurses" (PDF). The Quan. 58 (2). American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor: 1, 6– 7, 9 ...
Magdalena "Maggie" Estoista Leones (August 19, 1920 – June 16, 2016) was a Filipino intelligence officer during World War II. She is the first and only Asian to receive a Silver Star Medal for her wartime contributions. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The two committees quickly became elective, although women did not have the right to vote for the members of the General Committee. A brusque surgeon, Dr. Dana Nance, was the initial head of the men's committee and Ethel Herold, equally brusque, the head of the women's committee. The men's committee had veto rights over the women's committee. [12]
On 26 May 1940, President Manuel L. Quezon signed the charter of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines. [16] [17] Helena Z. Benitez was the Chairman of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines Central Committee, while Josefa became the group's first National Executive. At the time of the charter, there were 1,000 Girl Scouts in the Philippines. [18]
Women internees at Santo Tomas wash their hair at a communal bath. During the war, a total of about 7,000 people were resident in Santo Tomas. There was a regular flow of people in and out of the camp, as some missionaries, elderly, and sick people were initially allowed to live outside the camp and more than 2,000 were transferred to Los ...
Nieves Fernandez (born circa 1906) was a Filipino guerrilla leader in Tacloban City, during World War II. [2] [3]Before the war, Fernandez worked as a school teacher. When the Imperial Japanese began occupying the Philippine Islands, including her hometown of Tacloban, Fernandez organized a resistance movement that numbered around 110 fighters. [4]
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Asian American women during World War II served many crucial functions that tend to be overlooked, or erased entirely, from modern history books. [citation needed] Women’s roles are under-appreciated or unmentioned in the context of war; these women, however, were tasked with various duties that greatly aided American forces going into combat.