Women heroes of World War II
Subtitle: the Pacific Theater : 15 stories of resistance, rescue, sabotage, and survival
By: Kathryn J. Atwood
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781613731680
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Female Participation; Underground movements; World War, 1939-1945; Women
Description: Collects the stories of fifteen women who risked their lives to become heroes in the Pacific theater of World War II.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: China; title: Peggy Hull: in a war zone; title: Minnie Vautrin: American hero at the Nanking Massacre; title: Gladys Aylward: "All China is a battlefield"; title: The United States and the Philippines; title: Elizabeth MacDonald: Pearl Harbor reporter and OSS agent; title: Denny Williams: Nurse under fire; title: Margaret Utinsky: The Miss U network; title: Yay Panlilio: Guerilla writer; title: Claire Phillips: Spy singer; title: Maria Rosa Henson: Guerilla courier and "comfort woman"; title: Mayala, Singapore, and the Dutch East Indies; title: Sybil Kathigasu: "This was war"; title: Elizabeth Choy: "Justice will triumph"; title: Vivian Bullwinkel: Sole survivor; title: Helen Coljin: Rising above; title: Iwo Jima and Okinawa; title: Jane Kendeign: Flight nurse; title: Dickey Chapelle: "As far forward as you'll let me".