Behold Bataan

Name of Cultural Property / Ownership:

WWII Fil-Am Nurses Memorial / Publicly Owned

Significance:

In honor of the forgotten filipino nurses who worked side by side with their, American sisters with gallantry and steadfastness at two bataan battlefield hospitals carinf gor thousands of wounded soldiers and civilians under terrorizing war thinking little of their own personal safety. The first froup of Fil-Am nurses arrived in Limay Camp Hospital #1 on Dec. 24, 1941 and moved a month later to the little Baguio area of Mariveles, simultaneously, Hospital #2 (Jungle Hospital) was built in Cabcaben. The Fil-Am  nurses wer4e evacuated to corregidor before the surrender of bataan on April 9, 1942 with the hardest feeling of being separated from their patients. The American nursed ended up as prisoners at U.S.T Internment camp when corregidor surrendered on May 6, 1942. Dedicated No. 7, 2003. To reserve the Bataan history by Edna Bautista Binknowski, the family of the late Curtis B. Norris and the soroptimist int’l of Bataan.

Date of Updating of Inventory:

January 12, 2022

Type:

Marker

Location:

Brgy. Townsite