Tag: Manila
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IT was May 11th 1942 when Capt. Ethel Sally Blaine Millett, nine other Army nurses and three other women were officially captured by the Japanese at the USAFFE base hospital in Cagayan. “We stayed there until July… We were taken from Cagayan and we went to Davao by a dirty little boat,” she said. On…
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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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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…