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Filipina Comfort Women was a statue publicly displayed along Baywalk, Roxas Boulevard in Manila.Unveiled on December 8, 2017 and installed through the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) and other donors and foundations, it was dedicated to the Filipino "comfort women", who worked in military brothels in World War II including those who were coerced into doing so.
Magdalena "Maggie" Estoista Leones (August 19, 1920 – June 16, 2016) was a Filipino intelligence officer during World War II. She is the first and only Asian to receive a Silver Star Medal for her wartime contributions.
At the outset of World War II, US Army and US Navy nurses were stationed at Sternberg General Hospital in Manila, and other military hospitals around Manila. During the Battle of the Philippines (1941–1942), 88 US Army nurses escaped, in the last week of December 1941, to Corregidor and Bataan.
Claire Maybelle Snyder (December 2, 1907 – May 22, 1960), also known as Clara Fuentes, Clara Phillips, Dorothy Fuentes as well as High Pockets, was an American spy, entertainer, club owner, and writer most noted for her exploits in the Japanese-occupied Philippines.
Nieves Fernandez (born circa 1906) was a Filipino guerrilla leader in Tacloban City, during World War II. [2] [3]Before the war, Fernandez worked as a school teacher. When the Imperial Japanese began occupying the Philippine Islands, including her hometown of Tacloban, Fernandez organized a resistance movement that numbered around 110 fighters. [4]
It was also her practice to wear a Filipiniana dress during her lecture tours to promote foreigners' interest in the Philippines. [10] During her first trip to the United States, while she was at the Women's International League for Peace 1925, she met Antonio Escoda, a Philippine Press Bureau reporter from Gandara, Samar whom she later married ...
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Margaret Elizabeth Doolin "Peggy" Utinsky (August 26, 1900 – August 30, 1970) [1] was an American nurse who worked with the Filipino resistance movement to provide medicine, food, and other items to aid Allied prisoners of war in the Philippines during World War II.