A WWII SURGICAL NURSE, RUBY BRADLEY WAS CAPTURED THREE WEEKS AFTER PEARL HARBOR AND SENT TO A POW CAMP IN MANILA

 A WWII surgical nurse, Ruby Bradley was captured three weeks after Pearl Harbor and sent to a POW camp in Manila.

 There, she became known as the "angel in fatigues," 

she performed over 230 surgeries and assisted in childbirths under the camp’s inadequate conditions, all while smuggling in food and medical supplies.

Bradley went to the front lines of Korean War as the Chief Nurse of the 171st Evacuation Hospital. 

As 100,000 Chinese soldiers advanced on her hospital, Bradley refused to leave until she'd evacuated all the injured and sick.

 Bradley managed to leap aboard her plane just as an enemy shell struck and destroyed her ambulance.