Navy Nurses. POW's.

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Title
Navy Nurses. POW's.
Reference
PPFUR-1-20-001
Description
  • Series - PPFUR
  • Box # - 1
  • Folder # - 20
  • Image # - 001
  • Title - Navy Nurses. POW's.
  • Description - Eleven Navy nurses rescued last month from [Los] Banos internment camp on Luzon, pause at Pearl Harbor on the way home. Chief Nurse Laura M. Cobb of Wichita, Kansas greeted by Capt. Clyde Camerer. March 1945. Additional document: FREED NAVY NURSES HOMEWARD BOUND. Eleven Navy nurses, rescued last month from [Los] Banos internment camp on Luzon, pause at Pearl Harbor on the way home. Wan from three years of hardship under Jap captors, the girls wore Army uniforms picked up in the forward area. Picture #1: Preparing to disembark from Naval Air Transport Service Plane at Honolulu; Picture #2: Traditional Hawaii[an] leis are draped about the nurses' necks on arrival; Picture #3: Chief Nurse Laura M. Cobb of Wichita, Kansas greeted by Captain Clyde Camerer, USN of Glendale, California, the nurses' former commanding officer at Cauacao Hospital, outiside Manila, where he served until November, 1941. Captain Camerer is now District Medical Officer of the 14th Naval District. The rescued Navy nurses are: Chief Nurse Cobb, Wichita, Kansas; Mary F. Chapman, Chicago and Edinburg, Texas; Bertha R. Evans, Portland, Oregon; Helen C. Garzelanski, Omaha, Nebraska; Mary Rose Harrington, Elk Point, South Dakota; Margaret A. Nash, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania; Goldie O'Haver, Hayfield, Minnesota; Eldene E. Paige, Lomita, California, Susie J. Pritcher, [Des Moines], Iowa; Dorothy Still, Long Beach, California and Edwinna Todd, Pomona, California.
  • Photo Credit - U.S.Navy; Pacific Fleet
  • From Collection - Admiral Furlong Collection
  • Display Date - 1945 March
  • Start Date - 3/1/1945
  • End Date - 3/31/1945
ID
ark:70111/1wLp
Level
Record
Parent ID
ark:70111/0k8T
Start Date
1945-03-01
End date
1945-03-31
Closure Type
Open
Open/Closed
true
Closure Status
Open document, open description