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The night before Bataan was surrendered, the nurses escaped to Corregidor and continued to work in the hospital in the Malinta Tunnel. Corregidor fell on May 6, 1942 and American nurses became POWs of the Japanese. The author describes the scene:
At noon, while a bugler played “Taps,” two American officers lowered the Stars and Stripes form the pole outside the Malinta Tunnel and in its place raised a white bedsheet. One of the officers cut a small piece of the flag as a memento, then he set the rest of the Red, White and Blue on fire.
Underground the women prepared their remembrance. They ripped a large square of cloth from a rough muslin bedsheet and, at the top, wrote the heading, “Members of the Army Nurse Corps and Civilian Women who were in Malinta Tunnel when Corregidor fell.” Underneath in three columns the sixty-nine women signed their names.
“We wanted to leave a record in case we disappeared,” said Cassie. “We had no idea what was going to happen to us.”The nurses were eventually imprisoned in Santo Tomas University in Manila which had become a prison camp for some 3,800 civilians captured by the Japanese. Although suffering from malnutrition and various diseases themselves, the nurses kept working and were finally liberated by the American forces in February of 1945. They received a hero’s welcome when they returned to the States.
The author ends the story of American nurses in the Philippines with the inscription on the monument built by the men of the Death March:
In honor of the valiant American military women who gave so much of themselves in the early days of World War II….They lived on a starvation diet, shared the bombing, strafing, sniping, sickness and disease while working endless hours of heartbreaking duty….They truly earned the name “The Angels of Bataan and Corregidor.”aside from the link from clicking the photo, here’s another resource: click
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As Japanese forces continued their final assault on Corregidor, an American corporal named Irving Strobing was sending messages from deep inside a tunnel. He - and a few thousand other exhausted American and Filipino soldiers - knew they would have to surrender.
Abandoned by the U.S. government, whose leaders had decided to send their limited resources elsewhere for the time being, the men had fought until they could fight no more.
Twenty-two-year-old Strobing, from Brooklyn, was a signal corpsman who kept transmitting messages which were received by someone in Hawaii. Irv later learned that he was communicating with Sgt. Arnold Lappert.
At first, his Morse-code messages contained some humor - “How about a chocolate soda?” - but then they grew more serious:
I feel sick at my stomach. I am really low down. They are around now smashing rifles. They bring in the wounded every minute.
Some of his final words described the scene in the tunnel as the fate of the men grew clearer:
The jig is up. Everyone is bawling like a baby. They are piling dead and wounded in our tunnel. Arm’s weak from pounding key, long hours, no rest, short rations, tired.
His last transmission was:
Stand By.
Strobing was a Japanese prisoner of war for the next three years. He survived the war, however, and died of cancer in the summer of 1997.The Library of Congress provides this description for these two photos:
Photographs of Irving Strobing … prisoner after Corregidor, one in uniform half-length, facing front and the other seated, listening to radio with headphones. -
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…because it’s 2012. In less than 5 more years, corregidor war veterans will be no less than legends in their own rights. #corregidor (Taken with instagram)
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…and another one. According to the waiter, since cavite is not in view, it’s gonna rain tonight. #corregidor (Taken with instagram)
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The night before Bataan was surrendered, the nurses escaped to Corregidor and continued to work in the hospital in the Malinta Tunnel. Corregidor fell on May 6, 1942 and American nurses became POWs of the Japanese. The author describes the scene:At noon, while a bugler played “Taps,” two American officers lowered the Stars and Stripes form the pole outside the Malinta Tunnel and in its place raised a white bedsheet. One of the officers cut a small piece of the flag as a memento, then he set the rest of the Red, White and Blue on fire.Underground the women prepared their remembrance. They ripped a large square of cloth from a rough muslin bedsheet and, at the top, wrote the heading, “Members of the Army Nurse Corps and Civilian Women who were in Malinta Tunnel when Corregidor fell.” Underneath in three columns the sixty-nine women signed their names.“We wanted to leave a record in case we disappeared,” said Cassie. “We had no idea what was going to happen to us.”
The nurses were eventually imprisoned in Santo Tomas University in Manila which had become a prison camp for some 3,800 civilians captured by the Japanese. Although suffering from malnutrition and various diseases themselves, the nurses kept working and were finally liberated by the American forces in February of 1945. They received a hero’s welcome when they returned to the States. The author ends the story of American nurses in the Philippines with the inscription on the monument built by the men of the Death March:In honor of the valiant American military women who gave so much of themselves in the early days of World War II….They lived on a starvation diet, shared the bombing, strafing, sniping, sickness and disease while working endless hours of heartbreaking duty….They truly earned the name “The Angels of Bataan and Corregidor.”
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