TY  - BOOK
AU  - Russell, Maxine Kaiser
TI  - Jungle angel : : Bataan remembered / 
SN  - 961789417 (softbound)
PY  - 1988///
CY  - Brainerd, Minn. : 
PB  - M. Russell
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Personal narratives, American
N2  - 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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