Sacred Eleven – Women of World War II

POW Navy Nurses Have First Meal After Release

After three long years of deprivation during their time in a Japanese internment camp near Manila, some of the rescued

U.S. Navy Nurses rescued from Los Banos, speaking with Admiral Kinkaid. Chief Nurse Laura Cobb is pictured to the immediate

Lieutenant Junior Grade Dorothy Still, NC, USNR. Still was a Japanese POW during World War II from January 1, 1942,

Lieutenant Dorothy Still, NC, USNR. Still was a prisoner of war in the Philippines from 1942 to 1945. Photo size:

Eleven U.S. Navy Nurses, rescued in February 1945 from the Las Banos internment camp on Luzon, Philippines, pause at Pearl