Rainbow Trout aka Sue
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(The) "Guerrillas ... had a very complete military outfit, including medics. Some of the best-known physicians and trained nurses in the Islands had gone to the hills and volunteered their services to the leaders of the free movement." (2)
The surrendered Filipina nurses were taken to Old Bilibid, then released in July. Some became spies and couriers. (1) Others went to the hills of Cebu, Luzon, Leyte, Samar, Mindoro, Mindanao, and Negros, etc., they ... "accompanied the guerrillas in their movements against the enemy" caring for the guerrillas and the people of the near-by towns and villages in the hospitals and clinics the nurses, doctors, and medics created from almost nothing. Chick Parson's Guerrilla submarines began deliveries in mid 1944 ... (1) (2)
source : 1) oral history, and writings of Frankie T. Lewey, USANC.,(1910-1987) (in my possession) 2) p 153 Rendezvous by Submarine the story of Charles Parsons and the guerrilla - soldiers in the Philippines Travis Ingham Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. Garden City, New York 1945
name - nursing school - home - birth date Gregoria Espinosa St Pauls Hospital, Manila Tarlac, Tarlac; October 24 Auralia F. Barrera St Luke's Hospital, Manila Cavite Lucila F. Barrera St Luke's Hospital, Manila Cavite Sacorra Basan Southern Islands Hosp Cebu City, Cebu Esperanza W. Valido St Luke's, Manila Badoc, Ilocos Norte Ding Seuk-ching Leingkong Bah Sing Church, Fouchow, Fukin, China; Jan 8th Emelda Mendosa Tinawin St Luke's Manila Bulacan 1918-2000 Cleopatra Delay Chinese Hospital, Manila Aringay, La Union, Luzon Sustinez A. Lorenzana St. Luke's Hospital Manila Bayambong, Nueva Viscaya Nov 28th Ana L. Kayan St Luke's Hospital Manila Bantoc, Mt Prov, Luzon July 3rd Jane Swarz (1) Benilda Castaneda San Juan de Dios - Vigan, Ilocos Sur,
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