Revival History

First, Pearl Harbor, then, in April 1942, Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines fell. General Douglas MacArthur had already abandoned the Philippines. Left behind, along with some 90,000 American and Filipino troops,  without food, supplies or support were a group of American nurses who would become known as "The Angels of Bataan and Corregidor." Many of the nurses would be captured. They were the first large group of American women in combat, and the largest group of American women taken captive and imprisoned by an enemy.  The nurses would endure three years of starvation, witnessing torture, and conditions so brutal that as many as five soldiers a day would starve to death by 1945. One American nurse Margaret Elizabeth (Doolin) Rowley, who had stayed behind using the false identify of Rena Utinsky, worked underground with Filipino civilians and resistance fighters until she herself was captured. She would be sexually assaulted, tortured, and beaten for 32 days. When sh...

First, Pearl Harbor, then, in April 1942, Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines fell. General Douglas MacArthur had already abandoned the Philippines. Left behind, along with some 90,000 American and Filipino troops,  without food, supplies or support were a group of American nurses who would become known as "The Angels of Bataan and Corregidor." Many of the nurses would be captured. They were the first large group of American women in combat, and the largest group of American women taken captive and imprisoned by an enemy.  The nurses would endure three years of starvation, witnessing torture, and conditions so brutal that as many as five soldiers a day would starve to death by 1945. One American nurse Margaret Elizabeth (Doolin) Rowley, who had stayed behind using the false identify of Rena Utinsky, worked underground with Filipino civilians and resistance fighters until she herself was captured. She would be sexually assaulted, tortured, and beaten for 32 days. When she...