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Soldiers marching in Manila, US Army Signal Corps photo, now in H In the new prison camp, the “twelve anchors” the collections of the National Archives; navy nurses Dorothy Still and E turned a stripped infirmary into a functioning hos- Eldene Paige tend to an ill inmate, courtesy of Bureau of Medicine S and Surgery; sleeping quarters at Santo Tomas prison camp, courtesy I pital. Despite their own ailments, they provided of US Army; Admiral Thomas Kinkaid greets the navy nurses, nonstop care for starving, diseased, and abused courtesy of Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; nurses at Cavite Naval $28.99 (CAN $38.99) Base before the war, courtesy of Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; inmates. Over the years, their friendships deepened, ISBN: 978-1-64160-076-7 Dorothy Still, courtesy of Bureau of Medicine and Surgery 5 2 8 9 9 and several of the women, including Dorothy, even Author photo: Stephen Serio Photography found love. 9 781641 600767 E m i l i E l E B E au l u c c h E s i younThg nisu Irss eR weahlloy fWouagr hist faonr ilnifsep diruinrign gst ao rdya rakb otiumt ea. Printed in the United States of America the INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY of a NAVY NURSE POW in the OCCUPIED PHILIPPINES e l B l milie e eau ucchesi 314372AZK_WAR_CS6_PC.indd 3 01/02/2019 10:21:36 314372AZK_WAR_CS6_PC.indd 2 01/02/2019 10:21:36 314372AZK_WAR_CS6_PC.indd 1 01/02/2019 10:21:36 Copyright © 2019 by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi All rights reserved Published by Chicago Review Press Incorporated 814 North Franklin Street Chicago, Illinois 60610 ISBN 978‑1‑64160‑076‑7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Lucchesi, Emilie Le Beau, author. Title: This is really war : the incredible true story of a Navy nurse POW in the occupied Philippines / Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi. Description: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018058584 (print) | LCCN 2019002844 (ebook) | ISBN 9781641600774 (PDF edition) | ISBN 9781641600798 (EPUB edition) | ISBN 9781641600781 (Kindle edition) | ISBN 9781641600767 (cloth edition) Subjects: LCSH: Danner, Dorothy Still, 1914–2001. | Women prisoners of war—Philippines—Biography. | United States. Navy—Nurses— Biography. | United States. Navy—Officers—Biography. | Los Baños Internment Camp. | World War, 1939–1945—Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. | World War, 1939–1945—Philippines. | Philippines— History—Japanese occupation, 1942–1945. Classification: LCC D805.P6 (ebook) | LCC D805.P6 L83 2019 (print) | DDC 940.54/7092 [B] —dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018058584 Typesetting: Nord Compo Map design: Chris Erichsen Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 314372AZK_WAR_CS6_PC.indd 4 01/02/2019 10:21:36 For my grandfather Leon J. Le Beau, PhD. US Army, 5th Medical Laboratory, South Pacific And always, my husband, Michael Lucchesi, for many, many reasons 314372AZK_WAR_CS6_PC.indd 5 01/02/2019 10:21:36 314372AZK_WAR_CS6_PC.indd 6 01/02/2019 10:21:36 Contents Author’s Note ix Key Figures xi Chronology xiv Maps xvii Part I: 1941 1 I’d Die Before I Wore Those .....................3 2 Oh My God, This Is Really War ................19 3 Everything Under Control .....................29 Part II: 1942 4 Banzai .......................................49 5 Chin Up, Girls ................................59 6 Room 30A ....................................75 7 Where Were You When We Needed Help? .......93 314372AZK_WAR_CS6_PC.indd 7 01/02/2019 10:21:36 Part III: 1943 8 Fed Up with the Way Things Have Been Going ..105 9 They Will Suffocate! ..........................113 10 Take Them Outside ...........................125 11 I Am Ashamed of You ........................139 Part IV: 1944 12 We Might Not Come Out of This Alive .........157 13 I Have Returned .............................169 14 Do the Best You Can .........................181 Part V: 1945 15 ’Tis You, ’Tis You Must Go and I Must Bide ....197 16 Roll Out the Barrel ...........................211 17 Today We Either Live or Die ..................221 18 Don’t Worry Anymore About Me ..............235 Epilogue: I Hear You .........................255 Acknowledgments 267 Notes 271 Bibliography 303 Index 309 314372AZK_WAR_CS6_PC.indd 8 01/02/2019 10:21:37

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In January 1940, navy nurse Dorothy Still eagerly anticipated her new assignment at a military hospital in the Philippines. Her first year abroad was an adventure. She dated sailors and attended dances. But as 1941 progressed, signs of imminent war grew more urgent. Military wives and children were
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