Rescued after 3 years of Japanese POW Camp. The following book is about the ordeal: We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan. One of the 11 Navy nurses captured by the Japanese in the Philippines.
Lieutenant Junior Grade Goldie Aimee O’Haver, NC, USNR, who was one of the eleven U.S. Navy Nurse Prisoners of War in the Philippines from 1942-45. O’Haver graduated from St. Joseph’s Hospital, School of Nursing, at Ottumwa, Iowa, 1929 and entered Naval Service on December 17, 1929. She was transferred to Guam on October 31, 1940, then transferred to Manila, Philippines, on November 5, 1940.
They were called the Sacred Eleven when they were rescued by American troops.
Lieutenant Junior Grade Goldie Aimee O’Haver, NC, USNR, who was one of the eleven U.S. Navy Nurse Prisoners of War in the Philippines from 1942-45. O’Haver graduated from St. Joseph’s Hospital, School of Nursing, at Ottumwa, Iowa, 1929 and entered Naval Service on December 17, 1929. She was transferred to Guam on October 31, 1940, then transferred to Manila, Philippines, on November 5, 1940.
They were called the Sacred Eleven when they were rescued by American troops.
Rescued after 3 years of Japanese POW Camp. The following book is about the ordeal: We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan. One of the 11 Navy nurses captured by the Japanese in the Philippines.
Lieutenant Junior Grade Goldie Aimee O’Haver, NC, USNR, who was one of the eleven U.S. Navy Nurse Prisoners of War in the Philippines from 1942-45. O’Haver graduated from St. Joseph’s Hospital, School of Nursing, at Ottumwa, Iowa, 1929 and entered Naval Service on December 17, 1929. She was transferred to Guam on October 31, 1940, then transferred to Manila, Philippines, on November 5, 1940.
They were called the Sacred Eleven when they were rescued by American troops.
Lieutenant Junior Grade Goldie Aimee O’Haver, NC, USNR, who was one of the eleven U.S. Navy Nurse Prisoners of War in the Philippines from 1942-45. O’Haver graduated from St. Joseph’s Hospital, School of Nursing, at Ottumwa, Iowa, 1929 and entered Naval Service on December 17, 1929. She was transferred to Guam on October 31, 1940, then transferred to Manila, Philippines, on November 5, 1940.
They were called the Sacred Eleven when they were rescued by American troops.
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