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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]
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 ...
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 ...
World War II Allied Women's Services (Osprey Publishing, 2001) short guide to units and uniforms. Campbell, D'Ann. "The Women of World War II" in Thomas W. Zeiler, and Daniel M. DuBois, eds. A Companion to World War II (2 vol 2015) 2:717–738; Cook, Bernard A. Women and war: a historical encyclopedia from antiquity to the present (ABC-CLIO 2006)