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    Valor The Heroic Navy Nurse

    Dec 24, 2019 2 minutes
    By Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi

    Lt. Cmdr. Laura Cobb

    U.S. Navy Nurse Corps

    Bronze Star

    Philippines

    1942–45

    In March 1942, soon after U.S. forces in the Philippines surrendered to the Japanese, Chief Nurse Laura Mae Cobb of the Cañacao Naval Hospital in Manila Bay was sent with 11 other nurses to a civilian internment camp on the grounds of Santo Tomas University. There

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