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Imprisoned Navy Nurses Come Home



Imprisoned Navy Nurses Come Home
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Title: Imprisoned Navy Nurses Come Home
Description: Two nurses, Leona Jackson, left, and Mary Rose Harrington Nelson, right, return to Guam after being imprisoned in Los Banos, Philippines, for over two years. Jackson is wearing a dress with large buttons. Nelson is wearing a cap and dress suit uniform, and holding a long pen-like object. Behind them is a map of Guam painted on the wall. Leona Jackson went on to become the third director of the United States Navy Nurse Corps in 1954.

Image ID: 85338
Creation
Date:
March 1945 
Creator
Name:
Chapelle, Dickey
Collection
Name:
Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965 : Papers, 1933-1967
Genre: Photographs
Subjects: Maps
Nurses
Military uniforms
Prisoners of War
World War, 1939-1945
Indoor photography
Portrait photography
Women
Women soldiers
 

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