Soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, they
also attacked U.S. military installations in the Philippines. For the
army and navy nurses stationed there, what had been a peaceful outpost
quickly turned into a raging war zone. When the U.S. and Philippine
forces retreated to the Bataan Peninsula and the fortress island of
Corregidor, the nurses followed them to the field hospitals to care for
the wounded. Persevering through enemy assault and imprisonment, these
heroic women became angels of mercy amid the war in the Pacific.