World War II Message from U.S Army Nurse POW in the Philippines

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World War II Message from U.S Army Nurse POW.  When U.S. forces were defeated in the battle for the Philippines in March of 1942 the American and Filipino troops who surrendered to the Japanese were forced to walk miles to prison camps in what became known as the Bataan death march. About fifty American Nurses were also taken prisoner by the Japanese and taken to separate prison camps.
On Oct. 20th 1944 General Douglas MacArthur kept his promise that he would return and U.S. forces landed to free the Philippines.
On Oct. 24th an American Nurse sent a message to the U.S forces that she was still alive in the camp where she was being held.
The message was carried by a Filipino resistance fighter who was shot by a Japanese soldier as he got close to the American lines.
His body was recovered by an American patrol who found the blood spattered message in his shirt pocket written on Japanese occupation bills. A Sargent in the unit, my wife`s Grandfather, kept the bills and brought them home after the war. We don`t know if the American nurse was rescued or not but we think her name was Shirley Donovan. Really interesting historical Item from the second World War .