"Details of many nurses’ individual trials combine to form a memorable portrayal of their shared experience, one which will emotionally impact readers." The book is illustrated with archival photographs and includes an index, glossary, and timeline. The women cared for one another, maintained discipline, and honored their vocation to nurse anyone in need-all 101 coming home alive. Pure Grit is a story of sisterhood and suffering, of tragedy and betrayal, of death and life. Later, when most of them were captured by the Japanese as prisoners of war, they suffered disease and near-starvation for three years. The women served in jerry-rigged jungle hospitals on the Bataan Peninsula and in underground tunnels on Corregidor Island. But when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 blasted the United States into World War II, 101 American Army and Navy nurses serving in the Philippines were suddenly treating wounded and dying soldiers while bombs exploded all around them. In the early 1940s, young women enlisted for peacetime duty as U.S.
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