Pure Grit by Mary Cronk Farrell6/2/2023 ![]() Army Sternberg General Hospital in Manila as Gen. ![]() Ethel Thor reports for duty as an operating room scrub nurse at the U.S. Readers are drawn into the story as the new enlistees arrive in Manila with few concerns other than adventure and romance. A highlight of her research for Pure Grit was interviewing Dalton Manning and the sons and daughters of the other Army and Navy nurses. When Cronk Farrell started to write the book, Mildred Dalton Manning was the only surviving member of the group of combat nurses known as the Angels of Bataan and Corregidor. ![]() The award-winning journalist and author hoped to do justice to their story in Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific, released by Abrams Books for Young Readers this week. The collective history of these remarkable women only came to light for Mary Cronk Farrell in a paper her cousin had written in nursing school. Publisher: Abrams Books for Young ReadersĪ typical American history class might overlook 79 nurses captured by the Japanese and held prisoner in the Philippines during World War II. ![]()
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