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Marcia Gates: Angel of Bataan
Author: Melissa Bowersock
Narrator: Adrianne Price
Unabridged: 4 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: New Moon Publishing
Published: 12/10/2013
Category: Biography & Autobiography - Military
Synopsis
Marcia L. Gates was an Army nurse and prisoner of war during WWII. As an "Angel of Bataan," she spent three years in a Japanese internment camp in the Philippines. This is her story, told through her letters and the newspaper clippings, photos and letters collected by her mother. The book was awarded a biography medal by the Military Writers Society of America in 2012 and an Honorable Mention by the Hollywood Book Festival in 2013. It was also featured in the TV documentary, Our Wisconsin: Military History of America's Dairyland on WKOW-TV in Madison.