Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific

by Mary Cronk Farrell

Book Overview

In the early 1940s, young women enlisted for peacetime duty as U.S. Army nurses. 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. The women served in jerry-rigged jungle hospitals on the Bataan Peninsula and in underground tunnels on Corregidor Island...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419710281
• ISBN13: 9781419710285
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12