This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In January 1942, 11 Naval nurses and one ...

LA CAñADA FLINTRIDGE – Jean Kennedy Schmidt, one of the nurses dubbed the “Angels of Bataan” who treated U.S. troops battling Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II and were prisoners ...

When it comes to chores around the house, you have lots of responsibility. You’re in charge of mealtime twice a week. You take out the trash, clean your room, finish your schoolwork, and you even ...

There were no "typical" tours of duty in World War II, but U.S. Army nurse Mildred Dalton Manning's was particularly extraordinary. Manning, along with six dozen other nurses, was held captive by the ...

Retired Lt. Col. Hattie "H.R." Brantley, an Army nurse, spent three years as a POW in the Philippines in World War II. File 2002 - Staff Photo Editor's note: This column was originally published in ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Tribune News Service) — In March of 1945, there was a parade honoring the homecoming of Lt. Margaret “Peggy” Nash, a U.S. Navy nurse who had served in the Philippines, where she was ...

Japan has voiced "deep remorse and a heartfelt apology" to an elderly former nurse and other Australians it once held as prisoners of war, the foreign ministry and reports said. The Japanese foreign ...

The nursing identification badge was handmade and worn by my father's sister in a Japanese POW camp in Java (former Dutch East Indies) during the Second World War. As a Dutch national she, with her ...

But somehow Sister Jeffrey and her fellow nurses rose above their ordeal to create a “vocal orchestra” in their POW camp, performing concerts until they were too weak to continue. The story is told in ...