Category: Philippines
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Months before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy at Sangley Point in the Philippines had been trying to contain polio from becoming an epidemic. In an interview with the University of North Texas’ oral history program, Navy nurse Dorothy Still Danner, who was stationed at Cañacao Navy Hospital, shared how they tried to…
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She was the bond that held together her team of Navy nurses as they endured three years of internment in Santo Tomas and Los Baños camps in the Philippines during the war. Hazel-eyed, well-mannered U.S. Navy nurse Laura Cobb had had put in 20 years of service when war broke out in the Philippines where…
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“Even though women were not supposed to be on the front lines, on the front lines we were. Women were not supposed to be interned either, but it happened to us. People should know what we endured. People should know what we can endure.” These words were attributed to Lt. Col. Madeline “Madge” Ullom who…
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Teddy Tyson, wife of Singer Sewing Company executive James, reluctantly knitted a pair of socks. She finished it anyway and still managed to complete a pair that her friend, Ora Robinson, was also working on. When done, she gave the knitted socks to Herbie Zwick who had asked her the favor to do so two…
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He saved their lives as he turned a blind eye to their “transgressions” in the camp when otherwise they would have been tortured and killed. WWII internees at Camp Holmes in Baguio City, Philippines had lived a comparatively “peaceful” life in a war camp because of Commandant Rokuro Tomibe who was the Japanese civilian administrator…
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He never overlooked an opportunity to give help and assistance to individual internees and by his untiring efforts he obtained huge sums of money for use in buying food, clothing, medicines, and hospital supplies badly needed. So stated a citation issued to Ruth Grinnell when her husband Carroll was posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom…
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Anna is author of a book titled, “Ocho Ocho: My Childhood In War-torn Asia” published in 2012, which talks about her childhood memories, the years the Bucher family spent in China and the Philippines. In her prefatory message, she notes that her then five-year-old granddaughter Mattea asked her to share a story about her childhood…