Marcia Gates Angel of Bataan eBook Melissa Bowersock
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Marcia L. Gates was an Army nurse and prisoner of war during WWII. As an "Angel of Bataan," she spent three years in a Japanese internment camp in the Philippines. This is her story, told through her letters and the newspaper clippings, photos and letters collected by her mother. The book was awarded a biography medal by the Military Writers Society of America in 2012 and an Honorable Mention by the Hollywood Book Festival in 2013. It was also featured in the TV documentary, Our Wisconsin Military History of America's Dairyland on WKOW-TV in Madison.
Marcia Gates Angel of Bataan eBook Melissa Bowersock
I wish I could have interviewed Marcia Gates for my book, which contains oral histories of WWII nurses, including prisoners of war. She was one of the brave nurse volunteers who became an army nurse in order to have adventure, never knowing where it would take them. The army and navy nurses who spent 3 years as prisoners of the Japanese in the Philippines all survived, but after suffering through starvation and life-long effects that remained with many of them the rest of their lives.The author, a niece of Marcia Gates, fills in this biography with letters that express the feelings and tell the stories of both the nurse and her family, especially her mother, who was tenacious to get news of her daughter. This is a history book also, following the war in the Pacific until the U.S. Forces rescued the prisoners. As these letters are being discovered after the death of so many WWII veterans, I hope more of their first-person stories will be told.
Diane Burke Fessler, author of NO TIME FOR FEAR, VOICES OF AMERICAN MILITARY NURSES IN WORLD WAR II
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Marcia Gates Angel of Bataan eBook Melissa Bowersock Reviews
just stories
It was an awesome book.
Such a good read. It is not difficult to believe in the strength of the nurses from WWII. But it is difficult to believe that the story was not told in the same voice as most of the victory stories from that war. Such suffering and starvation caused by one of our great war leaders!
Good book and easy read! Very much worth the time!
The book deals too much with the people who knew Marcia, and their problems.
With Marcia, it's different they can only deal with some letters she wrote while a
prisoner in a Japanese POW Camp in Bataan, and later after the War her life seems
to be very dull. That's why I find the book very dull.
It wasn't so much about Marcia Gates' experiences in the war as it was about what her mother and family went through always wondering where she was. It gave me more insight about the heroism of the nurses who served during war time, although, I guess I was expecting more detail about their experiences. As a nurse I was expecting more detail in the care of their patients with meager equipment and supplies, how they coped when they weren't able to care for their patients like they wanted to. It was interesting to see what happened to her after the war. We tend to not think of the nurses suffering from PTSS.
I loved this! I'd never heard of the Angels of Bataan. They were nearly 70 Army nurses stationed in Manilla during the war. When the Philippines fell the nurses were held as POWs of the Japanese. What makes this especially interesting to me are the letters to and from Marcia Gates and her friends and family members, as well as official correspondence from the War Department, the Red Cross, and other organizations. The story felt "alive," immediate, and compelling. You could feel what her family and friends were going through during those three long years of her internment. Yet through it all, Marcia Gates never gave up hope. She and the other nurses felt they had just done their jobs and never understood why they were called heroes. But you will. This is a marvelous read.
I wish I could have interviewed Marcia Gates for my book, which contains oral histories of WWII nurses, including prisoners of war. She was one of the brave nurse volunteers who became an army nurse in order to have adventure, never knowing where it would take them. The army and navy nurses who spent 3 years as prisoners of the Japanese in the Philippines all survived, but after suffering through starvation and life-long effects that remained with many of them the rest of their lives.
The author, a niece of Marcia Gates, fills in this biography with letters that express the feelings and tell the stories of both the nurse and her family, especially her mother, who was tenacious to get news of her daughter. This is a history book also, following the war in the Pacific until the U.S. Forces rescued the prisoners. As these letters are being discovered after the death of so many WWII veterans, I hope more of their first-person stories will be told.
Diane Burke Fessler, author of NO TIME FOR FEAR, VOICES OF AMERICAN MILITARY NURSES IN WORLD WAR II
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