5/23/2023 0 Comments Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov![]() ![]() The "Angels of Bataan and Corregidor"-as the newspapers called them-became the only group of American women captured and imprisoned by an enemy. ![]() Caught up in all of this were 99 Army and Navy nurses-the first unit of American women ever sent into the middle of a battle. That raid led to the first major land battle for America in World War II and, in the end, to the largest defeat and surrender of American forces. On the same day the Japanese Imperial Navy launched its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, it also struck American bases in the Far East, chief among them the Philippines. We Band of Angels is the story of women searching for adventure, caught up in the drama and danger of war. ![]()
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