![]() ![]() ![]() Pure Grit is a story of sisterhood and suffering, of death and life, of how the women cared for each other and honoured their vocation to nurse anyone in need, all ninety-eight coming home alive. Their country needed them to return to being "ladies, " domestic, safe and fragile. ![]() American forces re-took the Philippines late in the war and the nurses were commanded by their superior officers to keep quiet about what happened. Military Nurses Serving in the Philippines, December 7, 1941. Captured as prisoners of war by the Japanese, they suffered disease and near-starvation for three years. From award-winning journalist and childrens book author Mary Cronk Farrell comes the inspiring and fascinating story of the woman who gave a human face to the Vietnam War. PURE GRIT Nurses by Home State - MARY CRONK FARRELL AUTHOR. Ninety-eight American Army and Navy nurses serving in the Philippines learned to treat wounded and dying soldiers while bombs exploded all around them. However, in 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, blasting the United States into World War II. In the early 1940s, a number of young women enlisted for peacetime duty as United States Army Nurses. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-148) and index. ![]()
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