Summary of Elizabeth Norman's We Band of Angels

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#1 The Army Nurse Corps was administered by Captain Maude Davison, a career officer and the chief nurse. The work was relatively easy and uncomplicated, and the women spent their days chatting about the future.

#2 On December 8, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and launched a surprise attack on the United States. The war was already on its way to the Philippines.

#3 On December 8, 1941, the Japanese attacked the Philippines. The most important military and commercial center in northern Luzon Province was Baguio, and the hospital where Ruby Bradley was working was hit.

#4 After Baguio, the Japanese attacked their primary target, Clark Air Field and Fort Stotsenberg, the main base of the Army Air Corps in the western Pacific. The Japanese pilots probably could not believe their luck. They had approached cautiously from the South China Sea at 25,000 feet, hoping to elude radar and observers on the ground.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822535657

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Insights on Elizabeth Norman's We Band of Angels

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Army Nurse Corps was administered by Captain Maude Davison, a career officer and the chief nurse. The work was relatively easy and uncomplicated, and the women spent their days chatting about the future.

#2

On December 8, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and launched a surprise attack on the United States. The war was already on its way to the Philippines.

#3

On December 8, 1941, the Japanese attacked the Philippines. The most important military and commercial center in northern Luzon Province was Baguio, and the hospital where Ruby Bradley was working was hit.

#4

After Baguio, the Japanese attacked their primary target, Clark Air Field and Fort Stotsenberg, the main base of the Army Air Corps in the western Pacific. The Japanese pilots probably could not believe their luck. They had approached cautiously from the South China Sea at 25,000 feet, hoping to elude radar and observers on the ground.

#5

On December 8, army nurse Helen Cassiani, Cassie to her friends, reported for her regular shift at the ear, nose and throat clinic at Sternberg Hospital in Manila.

#6

Helen’s parents, Peter and Sarah, had left their Tuscany village as newlyweds and arrived in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, with plans to build a new life. They had four children, and Helen was the youngest. She was a outgoing girl with dark brown hair, deep brown eyes, and an easy laugh.

#7

In August 1941, five months before the first bombs fell on paradise, five army nurses left Manila for the Philippines. They were there to help with the war effort, but they ended up helping with the healing process as well.

#8

The hospital in which Cassie was treated was also hit by the Japanese, and Ruth Straub, a nurse there, began to keep a diary. She was a sentimental and fragile woman, and she suffered a nervous breakdown after the war.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The nurses were left to manage the damage and loss, the awful inventory that battle always leaves. The casualties overflowed the wards and