Contents

• 1. Waking Up to War
• 2. Manila Cannot Hold
• 3. Jungle Hospital #1
• 4. The Sick, the Wounded, the Work of War - - 5. Waiting for the Help That Never Came
• 6. "There Must Be No Thought of Surrender"
• 7. Bataan Falls: The Wounded Are Left in Their Beds
• 8. Corregidor - the Last Stand
• 9. A Handful Go Home
• 10. In Enemy Hands
• 11. Santo Tomas
• 12. STIC, the First Year, 1942
• 13. Los Banos, 1943
• 14. Eating Weeds Fried in Cold Cream, 1944
• 15. And the Gates Came Crashing Down
• 16. "Home. We’re Really Home."
• 17. Aftermath
• 18. Across the Years
• App. I. Chronology of Military Nurses in the Philippine Islands, 1940-1945
• App. II. The Nurses and Their Hometowns