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Post by Registrar on Oct 12, 2014 15:04:59 GMT 8
I just had a lazy weekend reading PURE GRIT, the story of how American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific. It tells the important but little-known story of the more than 100 heroic women who served in the Philippines during WWII. Initially a posting of adventure and romance (in the classic sense), the Japanese invasion soon enough placed them under fire, necessitating their retreat into the field hospitals of Bataan, where common sense soon enough told them that they were bit players in a dire disaster. I recommend it as one of the "MUST HAVE's" for students of the American experience of WWII in the Philippines. I have reviewed it at corregidor.org/heritage_battalion/book_review_7.htmlThe author Mary Cronk Farrell is a member of the Society and of this board.
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