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Shortly after the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific troops of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered 22 Australian Army nurses, 60 Australian and British soldiers, and crew members from the Vyner Brooke. The group were the only survivors from their steamship which had been sunk by Japanese bombers just after the defeat of Singapore.
Sakamoto was heavily involved during World War II and helped rescue more than 4000 children. Shortly before the war, she earned her degrees and licenses in Osaka, and returned to her parents' village of Tanabe shortly afterward. She then began working for the National Health Insurance.
The Himeyuri students (ひめゆり学徒隊, Himeyuri Gakutotai, Lily Princesses Student Corps), sometimes called "Lily Corps" in English, was a group of 222 students and 18 teachers of the Okinawa Daiichi (First) Girls' High School [] and Okinawa Shihan Women's School [] formed into a nursing unit for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
Laura Mae Cobb (May 11, 1892 – September 27, 1981) was a member of the United States Navy Nurse Corps who served during World War II.She received numerous decorations for her actions as a POW of the Japanese, during which she continued to serve as chief nurse for eleven other imprisoned Navy nurses—known as the "Twelve Anchors. [1]
[1] [2] The Japanese were met by two doctors, Black and Witney, who were marched away, and were later found dead and mutilated. [1] [2] They then burst into the wards and bayoneted a number of British, Canadian and Indian wounded soldiers who were incapable of hiding. [1] The survivors and their nurses were imprisoned in two rooms upstairs.
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.
Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Statham, AO, MBE, ARRC, ED (née Bullwinkel; 18 December 1915 – 3 July 2000) was an Australian Army nurse during the Second World War.She was the sole surviving nurse of the Bangka Island Massacre, when the Japanese killed 21 of her fellow nurses on Radji Beach, Bangka Island, in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) on 16 February 1942.
Kath Bonnin (1911 – 1985) was an Australian army nurse during WW2 [1] Angela Boškin (1885–1977), first professionally trained Slovenian nurse and social worker in Yugoslavia; Hilda Bowen (1923–2002), credited with establishing the modern nursing profession in The Bahamas; Peggy Boyd (1905–1999), one of Scotland's first air ambulance ...