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| Keywords: 09-8119-003 Freed Navy Nurses Homeward Bound. 11 Navy nurses, rescued last month from Las Banos internment camp on Luzon, pause at Pearl Harbor on the way home. Wan from 3 years of hardship under Jap captors, the girls wore Army uniforms picked up in the forward area. Picture 1: Preparing to disembark from Naval Air Transport Service Plane at Honolulu, Picture 2: Traditional Hawaii as leis are draped about the nurses' necks on arrival; Picture 3: Chief Nurse Laura M. Cobb of Wichita, Kansas, greeted by Captain Clyde Camerer, U.S. Navy, of Glendale, California, the nurses' former commanding officer at Curacao Hospital, outside Manila, where he served until 11/1941. Captain Camerer is now District Medical Officer of the 14th Naval District. The rescued Navy Nurses are: Chief Nurse Cobb, Wichita, Kansas; Mary F. Chapman, Chicago and Edinburg Texas; Bertha R. Evans, Portland, Oregon; Helen C. Garzelanski, Omaha, Nebraska; Mary Rose Harrington, Elk Point, South Dakota; Margaret A. Nash, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania; Goldie O'Haver, Hayfield, Minnesota; Eldene E. Paige, Lomita, California; Susie J. Pritcher, Des Moines, Iowa; Dorothy Still, Long Beach, California and Edwinna Todd, Pomona, California. [Prisoners of war.] [Airplanes.] [Women.] [Nurses. Nursing.] [Portraits.] [Scene.] Cobb, Laura, 05/11/1892 - 09/27/1981.03/06/1945. 09-8119-003 Freed Navy Nurses Homeward Bound. 11 Navy nurses, rescued last month from Las Banos internment camp on Luzon, pause at Pearl Harbor on the way home. Wan from 3 years of hardship under Jap captors, the girls wore Army uniforms picked up in the forward area. Picture 1: Preparing to disembark from Naval Air Transport Service Plane at Honolulu, Picture 2: Traditional Hawaii as leis are draped about the nurses' necks on arrival; Picture 3: Chief Nurse Laura M. Cobb of Wichita, Kansas, greeted by Captain Clyde Camerer, U.S. Navy, of Glendale, California, the nurses' former commanding officer at Curacao Hospital, outside Manila, where he served until 11/1941. Captain Camerer is now District Medical Officer of the 14th Naval District. The rescued Navy Nurses are: Chief Nurse Cobb, Wichita, Kansas; Mary F. Chapman, Chicago and Edinburg Texas; Bertha R. Evans, Portland, Oregon; Helen C. Garzelanski, Omaha, Nebraska; Mary Rose Harrington, Elk Point, South Dakota; Margaret A. Nash, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania; Goldie O'Haver, Hayfield, Minnesota; Eldene E. Paige, Lomita, California; Susie J. Pritcher, Des Moines, Iowa; Dorothy Still, Long Beach, California and Edwinna Todd, Pomona, California. [Prisoners of war.] [Airplanes.] [Women.] [Nurses. Nursing.] [Portraits.] [Scene.] Cobb, Laura, 05/11/1892 - 09/27/1981.03/06/1945. | ||||
