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MAIN |
| Item Call Number |
DS 686.4 M35 1988 |
| Copynumber |
1 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
5554 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 961789417 (softbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Russell, Maxine Kaiser
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Jungle angel :
- Remainder of title - Bataan remembered /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Maxine Kaiser Russell
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Brainerd, Minn. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - M. Russell,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1988.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 104 p. :
- Other physical details - ill. ,
- Dimensions - 22 x 14 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - This book tells the story of Hortense E. McKay, one of the Army nurses who served in Bataan and Corregidor (a.k.a. The Angels of Bataan and Corregidor). McKay told her story to the author, who wrote it down with McKay in the first person. McKay arrived in the Philippines in February 1941, was assigned to the Fort Stotsenburg hospital, and saw Clark Field bombed on the first day of the war. Immediately, she and her fellow nurses had to tend the casualties of war. Moved to General Hospital No.2 in Bataan, she endured the lack of food and medicines. When Bataan's fall was sure, she and other nurses were transferred to Corregidor; a few days before the Japanese invaded the island fort, McKay, together with other American nurses, was evacuated to Australia by submarine. She remained in the Army Nurse Corps in the Southwest Pacific, and in 1944 returned with MacArthur's forces on board a hospital ship. McKay retired from the army as a Lieutenant Colonel. Author Russell adds three Bataan veterans' stories which she had learned in the process of writing McKay's biography (these form the "Bataan Remembered" part of the book). - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Campaigns
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Personal narratives, American.
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