Evelyn B. Whitlow was serving as a nurse in the Philippines when Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. She was captured following the fall of the Philippines in May 1942. One of the Angels of Bataan and Corregidor, these nurses were the first group of American women taken as prisoners of war.
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