"I never expected to see it again," a nurse commented. Most of the women, known as the "Angels of Bataan," had been captured on Bataan or Corregidor, including 1st Lt. Rosemary Hogan of Chattanooga, ...

Do too many cooks spoil the broth? Apparently not, at least in the case of "When We Had Wings." Three authors collaborated on this historical novel about the so-called "Angels of Bataan," the Army and ...

Jean Kennedy Schmidt, 88, one of the last survivors of the "Angels of Bataan," the U.S. military nurses who were Japanese prisoners of war for nearly three years during World War II, died March 3 at ...

Writing a book is, more often than not, something of a solitary experience. And while it’s not that uncommon for two authors to collaborate, especially in nonfiction, three authors collaborating on a ...

Hortense McKay, a 1927 graduate of Washington High School in Brainerd, was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal for her work in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in Bataan in WWII. Patricia McKay Broback ...

One of World War II’s greatest untold stories began on April 8, 1942 when Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, the commander of the U.S. Army in the Philippines, ordered the evacuation of military and ...

Sixteen million men and women served in uniform during World War II. Today, 1.2 million are still alive, but hundreds of those vets are dying every day. In honor of Memorial Day, NPR'sAll Things ...

Waking up to war -- Manila cannot hold -- Jungle hospital #1 -- The sick, the wounded, the work of war -- Waiting for the help that never came -- "There must be no thought of surrender" -- Bataan ...