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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]
María Orosa y Ylagan [1] (November 29, 1892 – February 13, 1945) was a Filipina food technologist, pharmaceutical chemist, humanitarian, and war heroine. [2] She experimented with foods native to the Philippines, and during World War II developed Soyalac (a nutrient rich drink from soybeans) and Darak (rice cookies packed with vitamin B-1, which prevents beriberi disease), which she also ...
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.
At the outset of World War II, US Army and US Navy nurses were stationed at Sternberg General Hospital in Manila, and other military hospitals around Manila. During the Battle of the Philippines (1941–1942), 88 US Army nurses escaped, in the last week of December 1941, to Corregidor and Bataan. [6] Sternberg General Hospital, Manila, 1940.
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]
It was also her practice to wear a Filipiniana dress during her lecture tours to promote foreigners' interest in the Philippines. [10] During her first trip to the United States, while she was at the Women's International League for Peace 1925, she met Antonio Escoda, a Philippine Press Bureau reporter from Gandara, Samar whom she later married ...
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Filipina Comfort Women was a statue publicly displayed along Baywalk, Roxas Boulevard in Manila.Unveiled on December 8, 2017 and installed through the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) and other donors and foundations, it was dedicated to the Filipino "comfort women", who worked in military brothels in World War II including those who were coerced into doing so.