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Angel of Bataan nurse Dorothy Armold revisits WWII past
Dorothy Armold, once Dorothy Scholl, was among 67 Army nurses who stayed in the Philippines as Japan advanced. Now 67, she traveled from Topeka with family to relive memories at Santa Tomas and Bataan Corregidor sites, where she endured hunger, bombardment, and captivity before later marrying Harold Armold and settling in Oklahoma and Kansas.
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Topeka, Kan
Dorothy Armold
Petunias
Dorothy Scholl
Free World
Bataan and
Corregidor
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Pacific
Bataan
Arnold
Carolyn
Richard Torrence
Wetherford
Okla
Scholl
Harold Arnold
Dorothy
Sternberg Hospital
Harold
Army-Navy Club
Manila
Independence
Limay
Cabcaben
Harold Armold
Mrs. Armold
Santa Tomas
Sud
Springfield
Topeka
Armold