Margaret Nash, courageous WWII POW navy nurse
She nursed fellow prisoners through disease and near-starvation in a wartime camp, then survived to continue caring for patients and teaching others to do the same.
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PURE GRIT: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific is the newest book of award-winning journalist and author Mary Cronk Farrell.
She nursed fellow prisoners through disease and near-starvation in a wartime camp, then survived to continue caring for patients and teaching others to do the same.