We band of angels: the untold story of American nurses trapped on Bataan by the Japanese

Chronicles the experiences of ninety-nine Army and Navy nurses who were captured when the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked the American bases located in the Philippines.

  • OCLC #: 39930499
  • ISBN #:
    • 0375502459
    • 9780375502453
    • 9780671787189
    • 0671787187
    • 9780812984842
    • 0812984846
  • Call #: D807.U6N58 1999
  • Physical Location: Pritzker Military Museum & Library — Rare Book Room — D807.U6 N58 1999
  • Personal Collection:
    • The James W. Wengert, M.D. Military Medical Collection.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, ©1999.
  • Physical Description: xv, 327 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  • Contents:
    • Waking up to war
    • Manila cannot hold
    • Jungle hospital #1
    • The sick, the wounded, the work of war
    • Waiting for the help that never came
    • "There must be no thought of surrender"
    • Bataan falls: the wounded are left in their beds
    • Corregidor: the last stand
    • A handful go home
    • In enemy hands
    • Santo Thomas
    • STIC, the first year, 1942
    • Los Banos, 1943
    • Eating weeds fried in cold cream, 1944
    • And the gates came crashing down
    • "Home, . We're really home."
    • Aftermath
    • Across the years.
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