All This Hell: U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese Anniversary and experiences aboard the USS

and experiences aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6) from Pearl Harbor to Wake Island

By Chris Cook

Of the 207 officers and men who made up Jacobsen’s squadron at the beginning of the war

and at times troubled

the USS Bowfin

All This Hell: U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese Anniversary and experiences aboard the USSFrom the back of the book: More than one hundred U. S. Army and Navy nurses were stationed in Guam and the Philippines at the beginning of World War II. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, five navy nurses on Guam became the first American military women of World War II to be taken prisoner by the Japanese. More than seventy army nurses survived five months of combat conditions in the jungles of Bataan and Corregidor before