The Angels of Bataan The Army Nurses Who Survived Japanese Captivity
When Bataan and Corregidor fell in 1942, 77 American Army and Navy nurses became the largest group of American military women ever captured as prisoners of war. They had already spent months treating wounded soldiers under constant bombing in jungle field hospitals before their capture — and they would spend nearly three more years as prisoners, still functioning as a working medical unit inside a Japanese internment camp. This is the story of the Angels of Bataan and Corregidor: the jungle hospitals of Bataan, the agonizing order to leave their patients behind, years of captivity at Santo Tomas Internment Camp, and the astonishing fact that when liberation finally came in February 1945, every single one of the 77 nurses was still alive. Sources for this video: National Museum of the Pacific War, Angels of Bataan archive Norman, Elizabeth M., "We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese" U.S. Army Nurse Corps historical records Chapters: 0:00 Liberation Day 1:30 A Paradise Posting, Interrupted 3:30 The Jungle Hospitals of Bataan 6:30 Ordered to Leave Their Patients 9:00 Captivity in the Malinta Tunnel 11:30 Prisoners of War 14:00 Life Inside Santo Tomas 16:30 Liberation 18:00 Why All 77 Survived This channel presents WWII history through a documentary, educational lens. #AngelsOfBataan #wwiihistory #pacificwar #ArmyNurses #militaryhistory
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