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1LT Mildred Dalton Manning Oral History Part 1
Publication date: 31 July 2024
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title:
1LT Mildred Dalton Manning Oral History Part 1
creator:
Manning, Mildred (Dalton) (1914 July 11 - )
subject:
Army Nurse Corps
description:
Part 1 of 2. Mildred D. Manning (formerly Dalton) was born on July 11, 1914 in Winder, Georgia and grew up in Jefferson, Georgia. She enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps in 1939 soon after finishing nursing school. Her first station was Fort McPherson, Georgia, where she served for around two years before being sent to the Philippines. She was arrived Fort Stotensberg near Clark Field six weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the attack, she was sent to Corregidor then Bataan. She was at Bataan when the Japanese successfully invaded the Philippines in 1942, and General Wainwright requested that the nurses would be kept together. The nurses were isolated for a month in Santa Catalina before being held in Santo Tomas. At the time, Santo Tomas which was run by Japanese civilians who were more humane than the military rule that was put in place later. They were kept 16 to a 24’ by 18’ room, slept on straw-filled mats, and shared a shower and toilet with around 500 people. While there, two of her nurse friends would bring her small things like thread, a thimble, and fruit. She was held in Santo Tomas until it was liberated in 1945. In that time, she lost 21 pounds, had beriberi (or thiamine deficiency), and dental problems as a direct result of her imprisonment, and long term mental and physical health impacts in the decades since. Manning was discharged in 1946 with the rank of 1st lieutenant, and for her service she was awarded a Bronze Star Medal, Prisoner of War Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and World War II Victory Medal. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Reborchick, Marcy
date:
2008-01-29
type:
Moving Image
format:
MiniDV
identifier:
1117.01; 2008.1117
source:
CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
145291
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1939-46
rights:
Unrestricted