Tag: Sally Blaine
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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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Since fifth grade, she had been dreaming of going to the Philippines. Perhaps it was written in the stars that she would go there after all Capt. Ethel “Sally” Blaine Millett, an Army nurse, from Missouri, finally got the chance she had long been waiting for. Following her nursing training in San Diego in 1939,…